How to Fix cPanel fatal: Cannot upgrade due to insufficient disk space.

If you are getting following error message when your system want to upgrade cPanel. It won’t upgrade because your disk usages is full.

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The last attempt to update cPanel & WHM was blocked.
Please correct these issues and rerun updates.
fatal: Cannot upgrade due to insufficient disk space. Detected ?GB. You will need at least 3GB to install/update to a new version of cpanel.
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cPanel & WHM cannot update due to insufficient disk space in the staging
directory, “/usr/local/cpanel”. The system requires 3 GB to update; this
directory only has ? GB available.
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W NOTE: A system upgrade was not possible due to the following blockers:
W [FATAL] – Cannot upgrade due to insufficient disk space. Detected ?G. You will need at least ?G to install a new
version of cPanel
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We need to upgrade disk or clear the unnecessary files or logs.

We need to check disk usages first. We can check disk usages using following commands.

# df -h

– it will show the size in Gigabyte.

# du -sh /home/

– it will show the /home/ folder in MB size.

# du -sh /home/*

– it will show each folder size in MB under /home/ directory

This way we can check other directories usages. If you see /home is using all disk space, then find users error_log and clean. Also delete users generated backup.

Fix #1: Clear up unnecessary logs in

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/
/usr/local/apache/logs/
/usr/local/apache/domlogs/

Fix #2: Remove unnecessary old or duplicate folders such as
/usr/local/apache.*
/usr/local/maldet.*

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