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Time to time we receive a complaint from managed VPS clients that they are not able to create session, they usually get an error some thing like<\/p>\n

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PHP Warning: Unknown:\r\nopen(\/tmp\/sess_8974c0acd95c8d7ae09aa9222bb1acab, O_RDWR) failed: No space<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
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Usually you can do the same old thing i.e. remove old files from \/tmp. Usually deleting files older than 1 day is totally safe. Here is the command to do that.<\/p>\n
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find * -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \\;<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
find command finds all files older than 1 day and pass it to rm which deletes them. Note there is space \u00a0before and after {}. However if number of files in tmp are too much you will get this error.
\n\/usr\/bin\/find: Argument list too long<\/span>
\nTo tackle argument too long issue, use it with “find .” instead of “find *”
\nThe following commands worked good for me.<\/p>\n
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cd \/tmp\r\nfind . -mtime +1 | xargs rm -Rf`\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
and<\/p>\n
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find . -mtime +1 -delete\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
if you receive folder errors, add a file filter. The final command that you should use to delete x days old files in \/tmp\u00a0folder is\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
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find \/tmp\/. -type f -mtime +1 -delete<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
update:
\nTo\u00a0remove files by access time use: atime
\nTo remove files by status change (like name or attributes): ctime
\nTo remove files by content modify time use (as used in this article): mtime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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