{"id":989,"date":"2014-11-27T08:04:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T08:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=989"},"modified":"2021-02-17T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T10:02:44","slug":"how-to-increase-size-of-tmp-on-cpanel-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/how-to-increase-size-of-tmp-on-cpanel-server\/","title":{"rendered":"How to increase size of \/tmp on cPanel server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We were regularly getting a error message that the \/var\/tmp directory in one of our cPanel server is full and we need to remove some data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We considered the error log and discovered that the tmp partition goes full when the planned back-up runs. Therefore, we had nothing to do but increase the tmp partition size. After that, our server runs excellent and no problems or errors since then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Here are the steps to increase the size of \/var\/tmp and \/tmp partition on cPanle servers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Before start resizing we should stop the services by\u00a0using\u00a0following commands:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">\/etc\/init.d\/cpanel stop\r\n\/etc\/init.d\/httpd stop\r\n\/etc\/init.d\/mysql stop<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<strong>Umount \/tmp and \/var\/tmp<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">umount -l \/tmp\r\numount -l \/var\/tmp<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<strong>Take the backup of File<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"cpanel-files\"><\/div>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">mv \/usr\/tmpDSK \/usr\/tmpDSK-bk<\/pre>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<strong>Edit \/scripts\/securetmp<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">nano \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/scripts\/securetmp<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Change the value of variable\u00a0$tmpdsksize to required size.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Now to resize the \/tmp partition run these commands one by one<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">rm -fv \/usr\/tmpDSK\r\n\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/scripts\/securetmp\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<strong>Then restart the Server<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">shutdown -r 0<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now when all services are restarted you may check the partition by using\u00a0following command<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">df -h<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tmp-size.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-990 pleslwp\" src=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tmp-size.jpg\" alt=\"tmp size\" width=\"666\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tmp-size.jpg 666w, https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tmp-size-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tmp-size-636x206.jpg 636w, https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tmp-size-320x104.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tmp-size-239x78.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[wpfmb type=&#8217;info&#8217; theme=2]Time to time we need to remove old files from \/tmp.,Here you can check steps on <a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/deleting-old-files-in-tmp-on-cpanel\/\">Deleting X days old files in TMP on cpanel server<\/a> [\/wpfmb]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were regularly getting a error message that the \/var\/tmp directory in one of our cPanel server is full and we need to remove some data. 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