I am setting up a new whm/cpanel box. I have noticed that for LL of my accounts (newly built accounts AND accounts transferred over from an old box) that the disk space is NOT being calculated. In WHM disk space is 0MB for all accounts. In cPanel its the same in the main cPanel window. When I click Disk Space Usage in cPanel, the details show the actual space used (there is a lot of usage in /tmp for all accounts for some reason. Is it safe to delete this?)... How do I get the disk space to calculate correctly?
I just ran /scripts/fixquotas and it seems to have resolved the issues of disk space. I do have two questions still...
1) Is that a one shot fix in that I will hve to keep doing it form time to time, or will WHM/cPanel keep track correctly going forward?
2) About all that space used in /tmp. Is it safe to nuke all of that? (I'd like to reclaim the disk space.)
Thanks!
1) Is that a one shot fix in that I will hve to keep doing it form time to time, or will WHM/cPanel keep track correctly going forward?
2) About all that space used in /tmp. Is it safe to nuke all of that? (I'd like to reclaim the disk space.)
Thanks!
Infopro
Well-Known Member
1) Once Quotas are enabled the system should keep proper tabs on things for you.
2) No. If you were to clear the entire directory, you would probably kill this: mysql.sock
If you kill that, MySQL will go away on you.
Lots of threads on these forums about clearing tmp, here's one for example:
http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/drive-critical-dev-loop0-var-tmp-97-full-190772.html
2) No. If you were to clear the entire directory, you would probably kill this: mysql.sock
If you kill that, MySQL will go away on you.
Lots of threads on these forums about clearing tmp, here's one for example:
http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/drive-critical-dev-loop0-var-tmp-97-full-190772.html
Infopro
Well-Known Member
We were not, my apologies.
The files in the user's tmp directory are statistics files as you might guess by checking the names of the directories inside tmp. One thing that might take up a lot of space would be analog stats, if this is enabled via:
WHM > Server Configuration > Statistics Software Configuration
You might want to disable it there. You could then if you wish remove that directory.
If you empty out the tmp directory, the account will lose all stats generated to date.
The files in the user's tmp directory are statistics files as you might guess by checking the names of the directories inside tmp. One thing that might take up a lot of space would be analog stats, if this is enabled via:
WHM > Server Configuration > Statistics Software Configuration
You might want to disable it there. You could then if you wish remove that directory.
If you empty out the tmp directory, the account will lose all stats generated to date.
Thanks for the quick reply. After looking at your first answer I was thinking we might be talking different things. So thinking logically (or at least my feeble attempt to do so) if I were to purge all the content of a /home/tmp folder, the net effect would be to lose all historic stats data for that account. Is this correct?
Infopro
Well-Known Member
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