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How to clean temporary Plesk files on a Linux server
Applicable to: Plesk for Linux Question How to clean temporary Plesk files on a Linux server to free up disk space? Answer There are two ways in Plesk to safely clean temporary Plesk files on a ...
Thanks, but if any files are used?
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Resolved - Safe deletion of the contents of /tmp directories
Having an interest in keeping things organised on our server, we ran several content queries. The two items with results that may warrant some re-organisation are these two: # du -sk /usr/local/psa/tmp/*and this one:# du -sk /var/tmp/* The question is (for those with lots more Plesk experience...
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Stop Plesk services:
# service psa stopall
Stop PHP-PFM:
# service plesk-php<version>-fpm stop
Just in case some stuff is still running:
# service postfix stop
# service dovecot stop
# service nginx stop
# service httpd stop (or # service apache2 stop)
# service mariadb stop (or # service mysqld stop)
Then remove the temp files, then in the opposite order:
# service mariadb start
# service httpd start
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Stopping services is not necessary - with linux, you can delete files that are still open, and they will only really be removed from disk & the space recovered when the last access handle to the file is closed.
As files in /tmp, by definition, aren't guaranteed to be persistent, it should not break anything if you just remove everything. But to be safe, you can use the suggestion to use find with option -mtime +1 to get only files older than a day, and then let it remove them with -exec rm -rf {} \;. Note that if you don't understand how this works you probably shouldn't use it, as there is ample opportunity to introduce bugs that sooner or later do a rm -rf /, wiping your system.
As files in /tmp, by definition, aren't guaranteed to be persistent, it should not break anything if you just remove everything. But to be safe, you can use the suggestion to use find with option -mtime +1 to get only files older than a day, and then let it remove them with -exec rm -rf {} \;. Note that if you don't understand how this works you probably shouldn't use it, as there is ample opportunity to introduce bugs that sooner or later do a rm -rf /, wiping your system.
