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      RobinH @stephenw10
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      @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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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              Yes, but still only 100s of MBs not GBs. You can remove those core files though.

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                                RobinH @stephenw10
                                last edited by

                                @stephenw10 Weird. I don't understand where 10GB would lie undetected.

                                How do I remove .core from root?

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  Indeed, I'm not sure here that space is being used.

                                  You can remove those files from the command line as root or at Diag > Command Prompt like: rm /root/ntopng.core
                                  Obviously be careful doing that!

                                  Steve

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                                    RobinH @stephenw10
                                    last edited by

                                    @stephenw10 Got 2% less... (77 to 75%)
                                    Dont really know what to do more then the things you suggested.

                                    There must be something that stores those 10GB's..

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