How to increase size of /tmp partition on a cPanel Server

Step 1: Stop services

#/etc/init.d/cpanel stop
#/etc/init.d/httpd stop
#/etc/init.d/lsws stop
#/etc/init.d/mysql stop

Step 2: Umount /tmp and /var/tmp

#umount -l /tmp
#umount -l /var/tmp

Move /usr/tmpDSK file to another location:

#mv /usr/tmpDSK /usr/tmpDSK_back

Step 3: edit /scripts/securetmp to set tmpdsksize to desired size:

#vi /scripts/securetmp
$tmpdsksize = 2048000

Step 4:Run these commands to resize /tmp partition:

#/scripts/securetmp

Step 5: Start services

#/etc/init.d/cpanel start
#/etc/init.d/httpd start
#/etc/init.d/lsws start
#/etc/init.d/mysql start