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      RobinH
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      Hello!

      I need help freeing up space on the disks as they are getting close to 80%. I have tried to locate what it is that is increasing but cannot find anything that is unreasonably large.

      disks.jpg

      When I run command "du -h -d1 /" it looks like this:

      4.0K /.snap
      3.0K / dev
      1.4G/usr
      116M /cf
      1.3M/bin
      4.0K /proc
      381M /root
      7.9M /etc
      4.0K /net
      426M /boot
      12M/lib
      4.0K /media
      11M /rescue
      4.0K /mo
      92M/tmp
      4.9M/sbin
      687M /year
      192K /libexec
      12K /conf.default
      260K/home
      4.0K /.cache
      3.2G /

      Anyone have a good answer on how to fix my problem?

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        You have /var mounted separately?

        Seeing the drive filling is almost always caused by unrestricted logging, usually from some package.

        Steve

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          RobinH @stephenw10
          last edited by

          @stephenw10 Yes, I think its separated with one that is dedicated to run Pfsence.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            By using RAM disks?

            What packages are you running?

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              RobinH @stephenw10
              last edited by

              @stephenw10 Hmm not sure. Its on a virtual server.

              Packages that I use are:
              acme
              haproxy
              openvpn-client-export
              PfBlockerNG (Disabled and not in use)
              Status_Traffic_Totals
              System_Patches
              Telegraf

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                Hmm, well I would have guessed pfBlocker was most likely but it's disabled.

                Are you sure /var is not shown in that output? It wasn't just omitted in the copy/paste?

                It doesn't look like you have it running as a ram disk so I expect it to be there.

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                  RobinH @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  @stephenw10 I got this when I ran the "du -Pshx /*" command, and can se the /var

                  8.0K /COPYRIGHT
                  1.3M /bin
                  426M /boot
                  116M /cf
                  0B /conf
                  12K /conf.default
                  3.0K /dev
                  4.0K /entropy
                  7.9M /etc
                  260K /home
                  12M /lib
                  192K /libexec
                  4.0K /media
                  4.0K /mnt
                  4.0K /net
                  4.0K /proc
                  11M /rescue
                  381M /root
                  4.9M /sbin
                  0B /sys
                  92M /tmp
                  1.4G /usr
                  685M /var

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Hmm, yet it doesn't show in du -h -d1 / ?

                    Is it mounted separately somehow?
                    What does mount -p show?

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                      RobinH @stephenw10
                      last edited by

                      @stephenw10 This is the output I get:

                      /dev/ufsid/5edf741a475fe581 / ufs rw,noatime 1 1
                      devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0
                      tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
                      tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
                      devfs /var/dhcpd/dev devfs rw 0 0

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        Hmm, what about df -a ?

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                          RobinH @stephenw10
                          last edited by stephenw10

                          @stephenw10 When using the df -a command I get:

                          Filesystem                  512-blocks     Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
                          /dev/ufsid/5edf741a475fe581   38557496 27083392 8389512    76%    /
                          devfs                                2        2       0   100%    /dev
                          tmpfs                             8192     2488    5704    30%    /var/run
                          tmpfs                             8192     2920    5272    36%    /var/run
                          devfs                                2        2       0   100%    /var/dhcpd/dev
                          
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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Hmm, then why doesn't it show in du -h -d1 / 🤔

                            I'll still bet it's in /var try: du -h -d1 /var

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                              RobinH @stephenw10
                              last edited by

                              @stephenw10 When I run the "du -h -d1 /var" command I get this:

                              4.0K /var/msgs
                              1.3M /var/run
                              12K /var/audit
                              4.0K /var/backups
                              4.0K /var/preserve
                              4.0K /var/crash
                              4.0K /var/mail
                              4.0K /var/heimdal
                              4.0K /var/account
                              425M /var/db
                              241M /var/cache
                              4.0K /var/yp
                              32K /var/spool
                              4.0M /var/tmp
                              8.0K /var/cron
                              4.0K /var/rwho
                              4.0K /var/games
                              4.0K /var/authpf
                              3.2M /var/log
                              64K /var/unbound
                              12K /var/at
                              4.0K /var/empty
                              7.6M /var/etc
                              4.4M /var/dhcpd
                              8.0K /var/lib
                              687M /var

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                Hmm, not there then. So there's ~10GB being used somewhere in that device that just isn't shown mounted filesystem... 🤔

                                Try gpart list see if that shows the expected values.

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                                  RobinH @stephenw10
                                  last edited by

                                  @stephenw10 Here is the "gpart lis" output

                                  Geom name: da0
                                  modified: false
                                  state: OK
                                  fwheads: 255
                                  fwsectors: 63
                                  last: 125829119
                                  first: 63
                                  entries: 4
                                  scheme: MBR
                                  Providers:

                                  1. Name: da0s1
                                    Mediasize: 21474803200 (20G)
                                    Sectorsize: 512
                                    Stripesize: 0
                                    Stripeoffset: 32768
                                    Mode: r2w2e5
                                    efimedia: HD(1,MBR,0x90909090,0x40,0x27fffbf)
                                    attrib: active
                                    rawtype: 165
                                    length: 21474803200
                                    offset: 32768
                                    type: freebsd
                                    index: 1
                                    end: 41943038
                                    start: 64
                                    Consumers:
                                  2. Name: da0
                                    Mediasize: 64424509440 (60G)
                                    Sectorsize: 512
                                    Mode: r2w2e7

                                  Geom name: da0s1
                                  modified: false
                                  state: OK
                                  fwheads: 255
                                  fwsectors: 63
                                  last: 41942974
                                  first: 0
                                  entries: 8
                                  scheme: BSD
                                  Providers:

                                  1. Name: da0s1a
                                    Mediasize: 20401094656 (19G)
                                    Sectorsize: 512
                                    Stripesize: 0
                                    Stripeoffset: 32768
                                    Mode: r1w1e2
                                    rawtype: 7
                                    length: 20401094656
                                    offset: 0
                                    type: freebsd-ufs
                                    index: 1
                                    end: 39845887
                                    start: 0
                                  2. Name: da0s1b
                                    Mediasize: 1073708032 (1.0G)
                                    Sectorsize: 512
                                    Stripesize: 0
                                    Stripeoffset: 3221258240
                                    Mode: r1w1e1
                                    rawtype: 1
                                    length: 1073708032
                                    offset: 20401094656
                                    type: freebsd-swap
                                    index: 2
                                    end: 41942973
                                    start: 39845888
                                    Consumers:
                                  3. Name: da0s1
                                    Mediasize: 21474803200 (20G)
                                    Sectorsize: 512
                                    Stripesize: 0
                                    Stripeoffset: 32768
                                    Mode: r2w2e5
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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    Hmm, is there some huge coredump file directly in the root of / that's somehow not being counted?

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                                      RobinH @stephenw10
                                      last edited by

                                      @stephenw10 hmm could be?
                                      How do I check that or should I just peform a delete_coredump?

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by

                                        I would just look in it manually: ls -ls /

                                        Coredumps are usually in /root though so check there too: ls -ls /root

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                                          RobinH @stephenw10
                                          last edited by stephenw10

                                          @stephenw10 ls -ls / gave me this:

                                          total 65833
                                              8 drwx------   2 root  wheel          512 Aug 25  2020 .cache
                                              8 -rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel         1023 Jan 31  2022 .cshrc
                                              8 -rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel         1067 Oct 18  2022 .profile
                                              8 drwxrwxr-x   2 root  operator       512 Jun  9  2020 .snap
                                          65600 -r--------   1 root  wheel     33554432 Jun  9  2020 .sujournal
                                             16 -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel         6121 Jan 31  2022 COPYRIGHT
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel         1024 Oct 18  2022 bin
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel         1536 Oct 18  2022 boot
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel          512 Jan 31  2022 cf
                                              0 lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel            8 Mar 24  2020 conf -> /cf/conf
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel          512 Jan 31  2022 conf.default
                                              1 dr-xr-xr-x  12 root  wheel          512 Oct 18  2022 dev
                                              8 -rw-------   1 root  wheel         4096 Jun  9  2020 entropy
                                             16 drwxr-xr-x  28 root  wheel         4608 Jun 22 23:38 etc
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x  17 root  wheel          512 Jun 22 23:38 home
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel         1536 Oct 18  2022 lib
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel          512 Oct 18  2022 libexec
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel          512 Mar 24  2020 media
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel          512 Mar 24  2020 mnt
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel          512 Jan 31  2022 net
                                              8 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel          512 Mar 24  2020 proc
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel         2560 Oct 18  2022 rescue
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel          512 Jun  2 09:48 root
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel         2560 Oct 18  2022 sbin
                                              0 lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel           11 Mar 24  2020 sys -> usr/src/sys
                                             32 drwxrwxrwt   7 root  wheel        15360 Jun 26 15:38 tmp
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x  13 root  wheel          512 Jan 31  2022 usr
                                              8 drwxr-xr-x  27 root  wheel          512 Jan 31  2022 var
                                          
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                                            RobinH @stephenw10
                                            last edited by stephenw10

                                            @stephenw10 And the ls -ls /root gave me this:

                                            total 781128
                                                 8 drwx------  3 root  wheel        512 Oct 18  2022 .cache
                                                 8 -rw-r--r--  2 root  wheel       1023 Jan 31  2022 .cshrc
                                                 0 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel          0 Oct 18  2022 .hushlogin
                                                 8 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel         80 Jan 31  2022 .k5login
                                                 8 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        328 Jan 31  2022 .login
                                                 8 -rw-r--r--  2 root  wheel       1067 Oct 18  2022 .profile
                                                 8 -rw-------  1 root  wheel       1024 Jun 21 13:52 .rnd
                                                 8 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       1943 Oct 18  2022 .shrc
                                                 8 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       3090 Oct 18  2022 .tcshrc
                                             68992 -rw-------  1 root  wheel   35291136 Sep  4  2020 charon.core
                                                 8 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       1124 Dec 19  2022 disconnect.sh
                                            544832 -rw-------  1 root  wheel  278818816 Jul 22  2020 ntopng.core
                                                56 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      24614 Jun  2 09:50 packetcapture.cap
                                                 0 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel          0 Jun  2 09:47 packetcapture.start
                                            167168 -rw-------  1 root  wheel   85536768 Oct 19  2022 php-cgi.core
                                                 8 drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel        512 Aug 18  2020 scripts
                                            

                                            Seems like the .core files are bigger?

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