You may have come across a below notification mail from cPanel stating that tmp directory is full.
Drive Critical: /usr/tmpDSK (/tmp) is 100% full
The reason is that the /tmp directory got filled up with temporary files. The file /usr/tmpDSK is created on running the cPanel script - /scripts/securetmp. /scripts/securetmp is used to secure /tmp partition. On running script - /scripts/securetmp, it will let the /tmp partition to temporary file for extra security.
STEPS TO INCREASE THE /TMP DIRECTORY SIZE:
1] Edit /scripts/securetmp for the below line:
my $tmpdsksize = 512000; Must be larger than 250000
Increase it to the desired size to be setup.
2] Stop Apache, MySQL and cPanel services using the following command to avoid them from writing files to tmp directory.
service httpd stop
service mysqld stop
service cpanel stop
3] Unmount /tmp and /var/tmp partitions and remove the file /usr/tmpDSK. Upon completion of umount, run the cPanel script - /scripts/securetmp again. Below are the commands:
unmount -l /tmp
unmount -l /var/tmp
rm -fv /usr/tmpDSK
/scripts/securetmp
This will create /tmp partition with the desired set size. Then it will mount to the file /usr/tmpDSK.
4] Start the services again using the following command:
service httpd start
service mysqld start
service cpanel start
