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 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 on a server.
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Open the Plesk Repair Kit by navigating to the following URL:
Note: Replace IP address/hostname in the URL below with your IP address/hostname.
PLESK_INFO: https://server.example.com:8443/repair/
PLESK_INFO: https://203.0.113.2:8443/repair/
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Input your Plesk Administrator credentials in the corresponding Username and Password fields and click Sign in.
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Click the Free Up Disk Space button to clean temporary files:
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Connect to the Plesk server via SSH.
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Delete temporary files that are older than X days from the
/tmpand/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 a server.
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Temporary Plesk backup files:
# rm -rf /usr/local/psa/PMM/tmp/*
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Other temporary files:
# rm -rf /usr/local/psa/tmp/*
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Comments
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https://IPADDRESS:8443/repair is 404 not found on all my servers.
This will break Media Uploader (error: "missing temporary dir") in all Wordpress sites on the server using PHP FPM (FastCGI is ok), php.ini unaltered.
@Marco Marsala,
Hi!
1) Plesk repair kit presents only on Plesk Onyx 17.8. Additionally, please check if your OS uses systemd init system (https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/onyx/administrator-guide/plesk-administration/repair-kit.79310/).
2) I can suppose that /tmp folder itself was accidentally removed. Please make sure that there is an asterisk in rm -rf /tmp/* when removing the content of /tmp
I confirm /tmp was not removed. The issue happes with FPM and Wordpress 5.x only.
@Marco Marsala, Hello there!
I was trying reproducing this issue on a test environments and different WordPress versions, however, have not reproduced. This is a really interesting case, that has a number of variables within it. Thus, we would like for this case to reach Technical Support in order to investigate it deeper. Please create a request according to this article: How to submit request to Plesk Support
Was there ever a solution for this? I desperately need to clear some space, but I don't want it to impact my Wordpress website.
Hi @Marnette,
Certain temporary files are not managed by Plesk but by the OS. For that matter, we recommend applying the solution in this article and I also recommend using the following extension https://www.plesk.com/extensions/diskspace-usage-viewer/.
As documented at the bottom of this article: https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/advanced-administration-guide-linux/troubleshooting.68745/
DEB-based systems have a
PRODUCT_ROOT_Dof/opt/psanot/usr/local/psa.Therefore, shouldn't the step 3 of the instructions for Removing tmp files via a command-line interface be changed to:
Hello Maghreb Services SARL
Thank you for the notice. The article will be reviewed.
Maghreb Services SARL
The article was reviewed, for Debian/Ubuntu /usr/local/psa is a symlink to /opt/psa. So, the article is applicable for default installations.
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