/home/user/tmp/ directory using giant space

[olijm74]

I have recieved a email from the host today that my plan is nearing 300,000 of max files.

I checked my host after logging in and found that the /home/myusername/tmp/ folder has suddenly caused a gigantic amount of disk usage which I don't recall before.

Compared to all my other directories in the File Manager, nothing compares to this folder and don't understand why it is so big all of a sudden?

Why is it doing this? One file for example which is over 2GB is Cpanel_Form_file.upload.c3d4d20f. I don't know which files I can remove without causing issues on my server.


There's lots of other files in 200MB+ size taking up a lot of the space as well in the text/x-generic type.

Any assistance greatly appreciated,

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! The example you provided with the cpanel_Form_file.upload file is a temporary file that was uploaded through the cPanel >> File Manager tool and may have been stopped or failed before it was finished.

You can remove all files in that tmp directory except for the following directories:

drwx------. 21 username username 4.0K Oct 13 2022 analog
drwx------. 3 username username 28K Aug 21 08:06 awstats
drwxr-xr-x. 2 username username 4.0K Oct 8 2013 cpbandwidth
drwx------. 2 username username 4.0K Sep 19 2022 horde
drwxr-xr-x. 2 username username 4.0K Sep 6 2013 logaholic
drwxr-xr-x. 3 username username 4.0K Oct 20 2013 pear
drwxr-x---. 3 username username 4.0K Apr 28 2020 pma_template_compiles_username
drwx------. 25 username username 12K Aug 21 08:06 webalizer
drwx------. 2 username username 4.0K Feb 12 2022 webalizerftp

 

[olijm74]

Hey there! The example you provided with the cpanel_Form_file.upload file is a temporary file that was uploaded through the cPanel >> File Manager tool and may have been stopped or failed before it was finished.

You can remove all files in that tmp directory except for the following directories:

drwx------. 21 username username 4.0K Oct 13 2022 analog
drwx------. 3 username username 28K Aug 21 08:06 awstats
drwxr-xr-x. 2 username username 4.0K Oct 8 2013 cpbandwidth
drwx------. 2 username username 4.0K Sep 19 2022 horde
drwxr-xr-x. 2 username username 4.0K Sep 6 2013 logaholic
drwxr-xr-x. 3 username username 4.0K Oct 20 2013 pear
drwxr-x---. 3 username username 4.0K Apr 28 2020 pma_template_compiles_username
drwx------. 25 username username 12K Aug 21 08:06 webalizer
drwx------. 2 username username 4.0K Feb 12 2022 webalizerftp

Hey, thank you for the reply. Got it sorted, I appreciated the detailed info like what folders not to delete.