Free up space, disk storage >80%

[stephenw10]

Did you manage to free any significant amount of space?

[RobinH]

@stephenw10 No, I cant find the entries when i look in Var/db/ntopng

[stephenw10]

What does du -h -d1 / show now?

[RobbieTT]

Is it only me that is triggered by the topic title?

No, just me and symbols then.

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[RobinH]

@RobbieTT Yeah... maybe it should be more like Free up space, disk storage >80%

[stephenw10]

I'd say either Used Disk Space >80% or Free Disk Space <20%. I can change it?

[RobinH]

@stephenw10 Please do

[RobinH]

@stephenw10 Well, I have'nt found the entrie files, so there is nothing deleted.

4.0K /.snap
3.0K /dev
1.4G /usr
117M /cf
1.3M /bin
4.0K /proc
96K /root
7.9M /etc
4.0K /net
426M /boot
12M /lib
4.0K /media
11M /rescue
4.0K /mnt
132M /tmp
4.9M /sbin
698M /var
192K /libexec
12K /conf.default
244K /home
4.0K /.cache
2.9G /

[stephenw10]

What do you see from geom part list?

[RobinH]

@stephenw10 How do I get that?

[Gertjan]

@RobinH

By typing that command.

[23.05.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.bhf.net]/root: geom part list
Geom name: nvd0
modified: false
state: OK
fwheads: 255
fwsectors: 63
last: 234441607
first: 40
entries: 128
scheme: GPT
Providers:
1. Name: nvd0p1
   Mediasize: 209715200 (200M)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 0
   Stripeoffset: 20480
   Mode: r1w1e2
   efimedia: HD(1,GPT,ebd48d0e-974a-11ed-be66-90ec7729392c,0x28,0x64000)
   rawuuid: ebd48d0e-974a-11ed-be66-90ec7729392c
   rawtype: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
   label: efiboot0
   length: 209715200
   offset: 20480
   type: efi
   index: 1
   end: 409639
   start: 40
2. Name: nvd0p2
   Mediasize: 524288 (512K)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 0
   Stripeoffset: 209735680
   Mode: r0w0e0
   efimedia: HD(2,GPT,ebdf0e41-974a-11ed-be66-90ec7729392c,0x64028,0x400)
   rawuuid: ebdf0e41-974a-11ed-be66-90ec7729392c
   rawtype: 83bd6b9d-7f41-11dc-be0b-001560b84f0f
   label: gptboot0
   length: 524288
   offset: 209735680
   type: freebsd-boot
   index: 2
   end: 410663
   start: 409640
3. Name: nvd0p3
   Mediasize: 1073741824 (1.0G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 0
   Stripeoffset: 210763776
   Mode: r1w1e0
   efimedia: HD(3,GPT,ebe48038-974a-11ed-be66-90ec7729392c,0x64800,0x200000)
   rawuuid: ebe48038-974a-11ed-be66-90ec7729392c
   rawtype: 516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
   label: swap0
   length: 1073741824
   offset: 210763776
   type: freebsd-swap
   index: 3
   end: 2508799
   start: 411648
4. Name: nvd0p4
   Mediasize: 118749134848 (111G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 0
   Stripeoffset: 1284505600
   Mode: r1w1e1
   efimedia: HD(4,GPT,ebe8094b-974a-11ed-be66-90ec7729392c,0x264800,0xdd30000)
   rawuuid: ebe8094b-974a-11ed-be66-90ec7729392c
   rawtype: 516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
   label: zfs0
   length: 118749134848
   offset: 1284505600
   type: freebsd-zfs
   index: 4
   end: 234440703
   start: 2508800
Consumers:
1. Name: nvd0
   Mediasize: 120034123776 (112G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r3w3e6

[RobinH]

@Gertjan said in Free up space, disk storage >80%:

geom part list

Hey!

This is what I get:

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

[stephenw10]

Hmm, nothing unexpected there. There's got to be something in da0s1a that du isn't seeing for some reason.

[RobinH]

@stephenw10 Well... now I have managed to erase all of the entries and PfBlockerNG. So its pretty clean when I run "find /var/db/ -type d -ls | sort -n -r"

2166917        8 drwxr-xr-x    2 root                             wheel                                 512 Jan 31  2022 /var/db/ports
2166916        8 drwx------    2 root                             wheel                                 512 Jan 31  2022 /var/db/hyperv
2166915        8 drwx------    2 root                             wheel                                 512 Jan 31  2022 /var/db/freebsd-update
2166914        8 drwx------    2 operator                         operator                              512 Jan 31  2022 /var/db/entropy
2007323        8 drwxr-xr-x    2 root                             wheel                                 512 Mar 17  2022 /var/db/vnstat
1927668        8 drwxr-xr-x    2 root                             wheel                                 512 Jun  2 22:08 /var/db/aliastables
1926291        8 drwxr-xr-x    2 root                             wheel                                 512 Jul 22  2020 /var/db/fontconfig
1926179       64 drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody                           wheel                               32256 Oct 30 14:20 /var/db/rrd
1926162        8 drwxr-xr-x    2 root                             wheel                                 512 Jan 31  2022 /var/db/zfsd/cases
1926161        8 drwxr-xr-x    2 123                              123                                   512 Jan 31  2022 /var/db/ntp
1926160        8 drwxr-xr-x    2 root                             wheel                                 512 Jan 31  2022 /var/db/portsnap
1926159        8 drwxr-xr-x    3 root                             wheel                                 512 Jan 31  2022 /var/db/zfsd
1926158        8 drwxr-xr-x    2 root                             wheel                                 512 Nov  3 03:05 /var/db/pkg
1926157        8 drwx------    2 root                             wheel                                 512 Jan 31  2022 /var/db/ipf
1926154       16 drwxr-xr-x   15 root                             wheel                                8192 Nov  3 14:42 /var/db/

But what is taking all the storage....

[RobinH]

@RobinH When I run "gpart show -p da0" this is what I get:

=>       63  125829057    da0  MBR  (60G)
         63          1         - free -  (512B)
         64   41942975  da0s1  freebsd  [active]  (20G)
   41943039   83886081         - free -  (40G)

[stephenw10]

Yes that's expected until you use growfs to fill the new space.

[RobbieTT]

@stephenw10 said in Free up space, disk storage >80%:

Yes that's expected until you use growfs to fill the new space.

Or you find and delete data you don't need.

But as with other comments above, you really need a bigger partition than the 19GB one you have.

I'm still new to freeBSD (but not to other things) but you could use a command script* to find directory sizes in bytes such as:

find /insert_random/dir/or_file -type f |xargs stat -f %z|awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'

As an example, on my in-production device:

[23.09-RC][admin@Router-7]/root: find /var/db/ -type f |xargs stat -f %z|awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'
58502534
[23.09-RC][admin@Router-7]/root:

So there is 58502534 bytes, or 58.5 MB in my /var/db/ directory.

*I have no doubt there is a better or simpler method than the above but I am trying to remember stuff from my childhood and I'm in my 50's.

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[RobbieTT]

Ok, done some learning and there is a -h flag available to make du a bit more readable to dumb humans:

So for example:

[23.09-RC][admin@Router-7]/root: du -s -h /usr/
910M	/usr/
[23.09-RC][admin@Router-7]/root: du -s -h /var/
718M	/var/
[23.09-RC][admin@Router-7]/root: du -s -h /./
1.8G	/./
[23.09-RC][admin@Router-7]/root: 

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