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How to increase the tmp partition in cPanel?

The cPanel /tmp filesystem has a default size of 4GB, or 5% of the /usr filesystem size, whichever is less. To enable this filesystem to store additional information, we need to expand its size. We must also remember to carry out this increase during a scheduled dedicated time since it requires temporarily stopping the services that write to /tmp.

This steps only works on servers on which cPanel has generated /tmp. cPanel-generated /tmp filesystems have /dev/loop in their names.

Steps to increase tmp partition in cPanel

1. Modify this line in /scripts/securetmp to set tmpdsksize to the desired size. For example, for 10 GB:

2. Comment out this section of /scripts/securetmp:

3. Check which services are currently using /tmp:

4. Temporarily disable monitoring for the services using /tmp, for example:

5. Stop the services that use /tmp, for example:

6. Unmount /tmp and /var/tmp:

7. Move /usr/tmpDSK file to another location (in case you need to mount it elsewhere to preserve data):

8. Run this script to create the larger /tmp filesystem:

9. Restart the services you stopped previously, for example:

10. Re-enable monitoring for the services, for example:

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Conclusion

To conclude, we provide the steps to increase the cPanel tmp partition in this article.