remove virtfs folder

[mahdy_sharifi]

Hello :

Some of our user account disk space increasing , after investigate we found many other user account on server that locate in /home/virtfs have incorrect ownership , How Can remove this folder from /home/virtfs in safe action ?

Thank You

 

[Infopro]

Don't, stop. You'll break things. Those are not actual files that can be removed.
VirtFS (Jailed Shell) - cPanel Documentation

Check the actual accounts and have the account owners do maintenance on them instead. Or, upsell them to have more space.

 

[aowebco]

Do you have jailed shell?

 

[mahdy_sharifi]

Do you have jailed shell?

no , disabled

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

Please keep in mind that a bind mount is a transparent link between two places on the file system. For example, if a user views the contents of /home/virtfs/username/usr/bin, the user actually sees the contents of /usr/bin. Thus, the /home/virtfs/$user directory itself is not actually using up any additional space than already exists. Data is not actually duplicated.

Thank you.

 

[mahdy_sharifi]

what is mean following :

[email protected] [/home/virtfs]# du -ch | grep total
18G total
[email protected] [/home/virtfs]# ls -al
total 36K
drwx--x--x 8 root root 4.0K Oct 10 03:00 .
drwx--x--x. 183 root root 4.0K Dec 6 22:03 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 529 Sep 21 23:55 0_README_BEFORE_DELETING_VIRTFS
drwx--x--x 14 root afshinar 4.0K Sep 27 00:00 afshinar
drwx--x--x 14 root ayehane 4.0K Oct 10 03:00 ayehane
drwx--x--x 14 root dvafaeic 4.0K Oct 3 23:02 dvafaeic
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Dec 7 23:10 _lock
drwx--x--x 14 root ooir 4.0K Sep 26 19:25 ooir
drwx--x--x 15 root trynewsi 4.0K Oct 14 18:00 trynewsi

 

[cPanelMichael]

The disk space you are seeing is not actually used in the virtfs directory. You are seeing the disk space used by the directories linked to.

Thank you.