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    Cagefs file huge

    Hi guys, We had a warning from cpanel last night that our /usr/ partition was nearly full on one of our servers. After doing some digging it came apparent that the skeleton directory is using 16gb of space! Is this normal? I believe I can move this to the home directory and create a symlink? Is that normal for it to be so large?

    Jon
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    Quote Originally Posted by NorthHosts View Post
    Hi guys, We had a warning from cpanel last night that our /usr/ partition was nearly full on one of our servers. After doing some digging it came apparent that the skeleton directory is using 16gb of space! Is this normal? I believe I can move this to the home directory and create a symlink? Is that normal for it to be so large?

    Jon
    According to the documentation it should only be 7gb, but might have changed.

    See this:

    http://docs.cloudlinux.com/index.html?cagefs.html
    That last command will create skeleton directory that might be around 7GB in size. If you don't have enough disk space in /usr/share, use following commands to have cagefs-skeleton being placed in a different location:
    $ mkdir /home/cagefs-skeleton
    $ ln -s /home/cagefs-skeleton /usr/share/cagefs-skeleton

    On cPanel servers, if you will be placing skeleton into /home directory, you must configure the following option in:
    cPanel WHM WHM -> Server Configuration -> Basic cPanel/WHM Setup -> Basic Config -> Additional home directories
    Change the value to blank (not default "home")
    Without changing this option, cPanel will create new accounts in incorrect places.
    Regards
    Jacob

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    Its normal. The installation doc itself provide method to overcome this ( symlink to /home ), if you don't have enough space in /home.

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