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    Disk Full of VPS - cPanel /WHM Error

    Hi;

    When going into cPanel/WHM, I am seeing the following:
    The / partition on this server is running out of disk space. WHM operation has been temporarily suspended to prevent something bad from happening. Please ask your system admin to remove any files not in use on that partition.

    I read some similar posts but there was some differences between their guides and my problem.

    I have access to my VPS but don't know how to delete and which files should be deleted.

    Regards
    Last edited by yusefcity; 10-14-2013 at 03:40 AM. Reason: extra explanations

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    Exclamation Disk Filled

    How much disk does the VPS have? cPanel/WHM takes lots of space.

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    yes,the total space is 500 MB.but I have only 4 webistes hosted which their contents are not more than 20 MB and also installed open vpn.
    it seems the disk space should be for logs or tmp but I dont know which files should be removed and which files are not needed.


    1)I Rund du -sh * and got below:

    4.0K 1194.log
    4.0K anaconda-ks.cfg
    4.0K ca.crt
    28K clien1
    4.0K clien1.zip
    4.0K client1.crt
    4.0K client1.csr
    4.0K client1.key
    4.0K client.conf
    12K cpanel3-skel
    4.0K installer.lock
    8.0K install.log
    4.0K install.log.syslog
    4.0K install.sh
    136K lzo-2.06-1.el6.rfx.i686.rpm
    128K lzo-2.06-1.el6.rfx.x86_64.rpm
    432K openvpn-2.2.2-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
    892K openvpn-2.2.2.tar.gz
    892K openvpn-2.2.2.tar.gz.1
    40K php.ini.new
    40K php.ini.orig
    112K pkcs11-helper-1.08-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
    116K pkcs11-helper-1.08-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
    4.0K public_ftp
    8.0K public_html
    1.9M rpmbuild
    16K rpmforge-release-0.5.2-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
    4.0K server.key
    164K tmp


    2) I Run cd /root;ls and got below details:

    [~]# cd /root;ls
    ./ install.log.syslog
    ../ install.sh*
    1194.log lzo-2.06-1.el6.rfx.i686.rpm
    anaconda-ks.cfg lzo-2.06-1.el6.rfx.x86_64.rpm
    .bash_history .MirrorSearch/
    .bash_logout .my.cnf
    .bash_profile openvpn-2.2.2-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
    .bashrc openvpn-2.2.2.tar.gz
    ca.crt openvpn-2.2.2.tar.gz.1
    clien1/ php.ini.new
    clien1.zip php.ini.orig
    client1.crt pkcs11-helper-1.08-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
    client1.csr pkcs11-helper-1.08-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
    client1.key public_ftp/
    client.conf public_html/
    .cpanel/ .rnd
    cpanel3-skel/ rpmbuild/
    .cpobjcache/ rpmforge-release-0.5.2-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
    .cshrc server.key
    .gnupg/ .spamassassin/
    .HttpRequest/ .ssh/
    installer.lock .tcshrc
    install.log tmp/



    regards

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    Quote Originally Posted by yusefcity View Post
    Hi;

    When going into cPanel/WHM, I am seeing the following:
    The / partition on this server is running out of disk space. WHM operation has been temporarily suspended to prevent something bad from happening. Please ask your system admin to remove any files not in use on that partition.

    I read some similar posts but there was some differences between their guides and my problem.

    I have access to my VPS but don't know how to delete and which files should be deleted.

    Regards
    You'd be best off checking the disc space first, run the following via SSH:
    Code:
    df -h
    Then report the output here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Karl_CLOOK View Post
    You'd be best off checking the disc space first, run the following via SSH:
    Code:
    df -h
    Then report the output here.
    I got below for df-h:

    23G 22G 0 100% /

    tmpfs 503M 0 503M 0% /dev/shm

    /dev/sda1 485M 67M 393M 15% /boot

    /usr/tmpDSK 485M 11M 449M 3% /tmp
    Last edited by yusefcity; 10-14-2013 at 04:12 AM.

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    Only a few hundred MB's of space available, you might need to upgrade your VPS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andrew-x View Post
    Only a few hundred MB's of space available, you might need to upgrade your VPS.
    our hosted websites only have 20 MB of disk space and it seems the disk space is full because of logs and tmp,how can I check them and delete unneeded files?

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    I wouldn't recommend it, because it might kill your operating system.
    You can search on Google "how to clean up servers".

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    Assuming your logs are in /var/log, cd to /var/log and run "du -sh".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Karl_CLOOK View Post
    Assuming your logs are in /var/log, cd to /var/log and run "du -sh".
    I got below:

    [/var/log]# du -sh
    1.8G .

    what should I do for next step?

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    Sorry, run "du -sh *".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Karl_CLOOK View Post
    Sorry, run "du -sh *".
    I got below:


    [/var/log]# du -sh *
    4.0K anaconda.ifcfg.log
    20K anaconda.log
    32K anaconda.program.log
    108K anaconda.storage.log
    56K anaconda.syslog
    68K anaconda.xlog
    4.0K anaconda.yum.log
    25M audit
    532K bandwidth
    4.0K boot.log
    13M btmp
    19M btmp-20131001
    20M chkservd.log
    4.7M cpanel-install.log
    128K cron
    612K cron-20130922
    612K cron-20130929
    616K cron-20131006
    608K cron-20131013
    1.1M dcpumon
    28K dmesg
    28K dmesg.old
    488K dracut.log
    16K exim_mainlog
    60M exim_mainlog-20130818.gz
    69M exim_mainlog-20130825.gz
    35M exim_mainlog-20130901.gz
    40K exim_mainlog-20130908.gz
    1.5G exim_mainlog-20130915
    32K exim_mainlog-20130922
    36K exim_mainlog-20130929
    2.0M exim_mainlog-20131006
    52K exim_mainlog-20131013
    0 exim_paniclog
    136K exim_paniclog-20130818.gz
    116K exim_paniclog-20130825.gz
    4.0K exim_paniclog-20130901.gz
    4.0K exim_paniclog-20130908.gz
    50M exim_paniclog-20130915
    0 exim_paniclog-20130922
    0 exim_paniclog-20130929
    4.0K exim_paniclog-20131006
    4.0K exim_paniclog-20131013
    0 exim_rejectlog
    8.0K exim_rejectlog-20130818.gz
    8.0K exim_rejectlog-20130825.gz
    4.0K exim_rejectlog-20130901.gz
    4.0K exim_rejectlog-20130908.gz
    1.9M exim_rejectlog-20130915
    0 exim_rejectlog-20130922
    0 exim_rejectlog-20130929
    0 exim_rejectlog-20131006
    0 exim_rejectlog-20131013
    36K lastlog
    152K maillog
    40K maillog-20130922
    304K maillog-20130929
    208K maillog-20131006
    1.1M maillog-20131013
    388K messages
    1.1M messages-20130922
    1.7M messages-20130929
    868K messages-20131006
    4.6M messages-20131013
    32K quota_enable.log
    120K rkhunter.log
    8.0K rkhunter.log.old
    5.7M sa
    404K secure
    3.2M secure-20130922
    7.2M secure-20130929
    2.8M secure-20131006
    9.4M secure-20131013
    0 spooler
    0 spooler-20130922
    0 spooler-20130929
    0 spooler-20131006
    0 spooler-20131013
    0 tallylog
    64K wtmp
    4.0K xferlog.offset
    4.0K xferlog.offsetftpsep
    24K yum.log

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    OK, I'd look into compressing the following log file to immediately clear some space:
    1.5G exim_mainlog-20130915

    gzip /var/log/exim_mainlog-20130915

    This should clear anough space to allow cPanel/WHM to work again, though you need to look into better managing your disc space. Clearing out logs (don't just delete them all!) and using logrotate and so on can go a long way to manage this.

    If you run MySQL databases on this VPS also, then look through them to ensure you've not got a table somewhere that's running away with all your disc space.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Karl_CLOOK View Post
    OK, I'd look into compressing the following log file to immediately clear some space:
    1.5G exim_mainlog-20130915

    gzip /var/log/exim_mainlog-20130915

    This should clear anough space to allow cPanel/WHM to work again, though you need to look into better managing your disc space. Clearing out logs (don't just delete them all!) and using logrotate and so on can go a long way to manage this.

    If you run MySQL databases on this VPS also, then look through them to ensure you've not got a table somewhere that's running away with all your disc space.

    Thank you.
    so by now you recommand to delete "1.5G exim_mainlog-20130915" ?
    if yes please tell me the command to do this as I am not so familiar with these instructions.

    regards

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    Quote Originally Posted by yusefcity View Post
    Thank you.
    so by now you recommand to delete "1.5G exim_mainlog-20130915" ?
    if yes please tell me the command to do this as I am not so familiar with these instructions.

    regards
    Sorry no, I'd suggest gzip'ing up the log file as follows:
    Code:
    gzip /var/log/exim_mainlog-20130915
    You *could* delete it I guess, though best not to.
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    i recommend you to upgrade your vps because 500 mb is too low for cpanel
    bytheway have you tried to clean /tmp file?

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    Starting with 11.36, you are required to have at least 1.6GB of free disk space for the daily cPanel update script to run.

    As of cPanel & WHM version 11.36, when you upgrade to a new version, necessary new files will be downloaded to a staging location. After the files are downloaded and compatibility checks are complete, the prior version is overwritten. This ensures that a partial upgrade does not break your current install. Because of this procedure, we require 1.6GB of disk space for /usr/local/cpanel before an upgrade, update, or new installation can begin.
    Source: http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/vie...ersion%2011.36

    So, as others have mentioned, it would be better if you would upgrade your disk space by at least 5GB (you currently have 20GB).

    That being said, if your websites only require 20MB, it's a bit weird how your disk got filled up.
    Can you please provide the output of
    Code:
    du -h --max-depth=1 /
    (it might take some time...)
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    I recommending getting your disk space increase by at least 50%

    Maybe you should read the recommended partition size: http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/vie...20partitioning
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    Quote Originally Posted by yusefcity View Post
    Thank you.
    so by now you recommand to delete "1.5G exim_mainlog-20130915" ?
    if yes please tell me the command to do this as I am not so familiar with these instructions.

    regards

    Thanks,I did it and about 50 MB became free,do you have any other advice about files to delete them from the listed files?

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    Quote Originally Posted by yusefcity View Post
    Thanks,I did it and about 50 MB became free,do you have any other advice about files to delete them from the listed files?
    cPanel is not suited to low disk space or ram environments if you want a control panel for this type of VPS you will need to be looking at Webmin not a fully featured hosting control panel which takes tons of space and you simply do not have that so either increase the disk space or start again with another control panel, You can clean out to save a measly amount of disk space but you'll be having this problem again simply because there's not enough room for everything to go.
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    Try deleting all your old logs.
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    Check /usr/local/apache/logs
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