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How to clean up temporary Plesk files on a Linux server

Question

How to clean up temporary Plesk files on a Linux server to free up 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 on a server.

Removing tmp files using the Plesk Repair Kit

Open the Plesk Repair Kit by navigating to the URL:

Note: Replace IP address/hostname in the URL below with your IP address/hostname.

https://server.example.com:8443/repair/

https://203.0.113.2:8443/repair/
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:

Removing tmp files via a command-line interface

Connect to the 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 a server.
- Temporary Plesk backup files:
  
  # rm -rf /usr/local/psa/PMM/tmp/*
- Other temporary files:
  
  # rm -rf /usr/local/psa/tmp/*