How to clean up temporary Plesk files on a Linux server

Kuzma Ivanov

Updated March 30, 2026 06:55

Plesk for Linux ABT: Group B kb: auxiliary

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Plesk for Linux

Question

How to remove temporary Plesk files on a Linux server to free up the disk space?

Answer

There are two ways to safely remove temporary Plesk files on a Linux server.

Note: Cleaning temporary Plesk files may not free up a lot of disk space. That means this solution may not help when there is no free disk space left on a server.

Plesk interface

Open Plesk Repair Kit by navigating to the URL:
- https://server.example.com:8443/repair/
- https://203.0.113.2:8443/repair/
Note: Replace server.example.com / 203.0.113.2 in the URLs above with your server's hostname / IP address.
Input your Plesk Administrator credentials in the corresponding Username and Password fields and click Sign in.
Click the Free Up Disk Space button to clean temporary files:

Command-line interface

Connect to your Plesk server via SSH.
Delete temporary files that are older than X days from the /tmp and /var/tmp/ directories. In this example, we are removing temporary files that are older than 14 days:

# find /tmp -type f -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;
# find /var/tmp -type f -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;
Delete temporary files created by Plesk and its services:

Note: We recommend to run these commands when there are no active Plesk Installer and Plesk Backup tasks on the server.
- temporary Plesk backup files:
  
  # rm -rf /usr/local/psa/PMM/tmp/*
- other temporary files:
  
  # rm -rf /usr/local/psa/tmp/*