Emptying /tmp

Jacob · 2014-07-31 23:06:16

I received an e-mail about my /tmp disk space getting close to full. I contacted cPanel and they advised me to delete some stuff. What are some safe stuff to delete?

Above image is from /tmp

symtab · 2014-08-01 06:19:40

There is nothing to delete in the tmp folder. Please check the media folder.

Jacob · 2014-08-01 12:02:41

Wait, but the e-mail said /tmp is almost full?

Coscast · 2014-08-01 14:21:30

Sure they mean the Scripts tmp ? Linux itself has a tmp folder too.

Jacob · 2014-08-01 15:40:55

I believe the scripts /tmp.

Here's one of the e-mails I received from cPanel:

Also, I created a thread on cPanel forums and this is what they told me:

I advise using the "du" utility to determine what's taking up the space in your /tmp partition. You may also find the following thread helpful:

Tmpwatch Every 24 Hours

Do you guys think it is safe to install Tmpwatch? I mean it won't interrupt anything with the sites script or would it?

symtab · 2014-08-01 16:04:31

Its probably your server's /tmp folder, not the scripts tmp folder. Or even /var/tmp/.

Jacob · 2014-08-01 22:42:42

Yes yes. You are right, it has something to do with /var/tmp. Is that server related?

symtab · 2014-08-02 05:26:50

Yes. Usually in /var/tmp the server stores temporary files (some servers mount /var/tmp on /tmp also).

Jacob · 2014-08-02 12:50:01

True. My hosting provider handled this issue for me. They basically deleted everything except for some mysql file.

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