This is another one of those things that I can never remember off the top of my head, so I’m sticking it here for reference. I believe it was originally posted somewhere on the cPanel forums by the almighty chirpy.
lsof /tmp # Umount /tmp and /var/tmp: umount -l /tmp umount -l /var/tmp # Remove the corrupt partition file rm -fv /usr/tmpDSK # Create a nice new one /scripts/securetmp |
April 30th, 2012 at 5:16 am
Good tip. But the “securetmp” creates a very small tmp folder, less than 500 MB. For busy sites, this is useless. Do you know any way to increase the size of the /tmp folder it creates?
April 30th, 2012 at 11:42 am
Hi Phoenix,
If you edit /scripts/securetmp, on about line 150, you will find my $tmpdsksize = 512000; # Must be larger than 250000
Just set that to a larger number, make sure nothing is writing to it (and kill anything that is), then run /scripts/securetmp.
There is a full guide to increasing the tmp size here: http://www.thecpaneladmin.com/increasing-size-of-tmpdsk-tmp/
Ben