pfSense partition size?

Understudy

@jknott yes the disklabel only shows 30G, so something is off with the disk. It may need to be redone. If you say it is 64G and that is not what is showing then there is a possibly the block count is off. So you may want to wipe the disk and start over.

JKnott

@understudy I wonder if this is because it came with an unlicenced copy of Windows installed, so that the computer could be tested. As I said, I'm just curious as I'm not even using that one partition.

Understudy

@jknott It's possible. But it should see the windows partition. The fact that is not shown is concerning.

JKnott

@understudy

No, I deleted Windows when I installed pfSense. However, I didn't do anything to change the partitions. I could be wrong (I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.), but I don't recall partitioning coming up when installing pfSense. When installing Linux, at least openSUSE, changing the partitions is always an option.

fireodo

@jknott said in pfSense partition size?:

No, I deleted Windows when I installed pfSense.

Sometimes this is not enough. Some OS leave a SSD/HDD with some interesting partitioning schemes. I had situations where only with Gparted (Linux) or gpart (freeBSD) I could regain the whole space on a drive and in some special cases I had to use special tools from the manufacturer to Low-Level reformat the drive to regain the full size.
Must not be in your case but its possible ...

My 2 cents,
fireodo

Understudy

@jknott I would see if you can use a live FreeBSD or Linux version and see if you can gpart destroy all the partitions make sure the superblock is correct. You then should see the full size of the SSD.

gpart is a wonderful program to deal with stubborn disks that will not yield to your wants and needs.

JKnott

@understudy

I'm not worried about it. I was just curious if it was something pfSense did by default. As it is, I'm only using 4% of that 30 GB. I didn't notice the 4 partitions until today, but I assume it's something the computer builder did.

Understudy

@jknott usually you can set your partitions in pfsense when you do the install.

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/install-walkthrough.html

stephenw10

What does the SMART data show? How do you know it's a 64G drive? It sure looks like 32G...

JKnott

@stephenw10

Apparently it is a 32 GB. I thought I bought a 64. The invoice doesn't say and the web site shows both 32 & 64 available. On the Ali Express site, you select the options you want to build the computer.

Well, not a problem. As I mentioned, I'm only using 4% of the 24 GB partition.