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

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        What does du -h -d1 / show now?

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        • RobbieTTR
          RobbieTT @stephenw10
          last edited by

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

          No, just me and symbols then. 🤷

          ☕️

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            RobinH @RobbieTT
            last edited by

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

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

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

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                RobinH @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10 Please do 😊

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                  RobinH @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  @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 /

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                    What do you see from geom part list?

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                      RobinH @stephenw10
                      last edited by

                      @stephenw10 How do I get that?

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                      • GertjanG
                        Gertjan @RobinH
                        last edited by

                        @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
                        

                        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                          RobinH @Gertjan
                          last edited by

                          @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
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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

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

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                              RobinH @stephenw10
                              last edited by

                              @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....

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                                RobinH @RobinH
                                last edited by

                                @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)
                                
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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

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

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                                    RobbieTT @stephenw10
                                    last edited by

                                    @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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                                    • RobbieTTR
                                      RobbieTT @RobbieTT
                                      last edited by 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: 
                                      

                                      Every day a school day... again ...or something.

                                      ☕️

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