How to delete temporary and unused files from a VPS server?

Dr. McKay · Nov 26, 2016

I have a VPS using Centos 6. I check with the command dh -f and its showing large size while I don't use more space like that, only some Wordpress sites. I wan to find out unused or temporary files on my vps and delete them to reduce disk space on my vps server. How can any one guide me?

UnderHost · Nov 26, 2016

Type the following command at the shell prompt to find out largest directories:

Code:

# du -ch -d 1 | sort -hr

tmp files are located at /tmp, keep in mind that control panel such as cPanel requires at least 4GB of space.

Luxin Host · Nov 28, 2016

You can get rid of the unwanted files using:

find /var -name "*.log" \( \( -size +50M-mtime +10 \) -o -mtime +30 \) -exectruncate {} --size 0 \;

This will trim all the logs which are either larger than 50M and older than 10 days or they are older than 30 days.

Another way to clean up storage would be using yum-utils package. After installing the package you can clean up caches using the following:

yum clean all

Dr. McKay · Nov 29, 2016

UnderHost said:
Type the following command at the shell prompt to find out largest directories:

Code:

# du -ch -d 1 | sort -hr

this command is great to find out largest directories i will keep it for the next uses.

UnderHost said:
tmp files are located at /tmp, keep in mind that control panel such as cPanel requires at least 4GB of space.

can I delete all files in this folder without any problems?

Luxin Host said:
You can get rid of the unwanted files using:

find /var -name "*.log" \( \( -size +50M-mtime +10 \) -o -mtime +30 \) -exectruncate {} --size 0 \;

This will trim all the logs which are either larger than 50M and older than 10 days or they are older than 30 days.

Another way to clean up storage would be using yum-utils package. After installing the package you can clean up caches using the following:

yum clean all

I am afraid of deleting using files and cause damage to the system. Is there a way to delete to user interface?

How to delete temporary and unused files from a VPS server?

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