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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
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          @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
              last edited by

              @stephenw10 Please do 😊

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                RobinH @stephenw10
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                @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
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                        @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
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                            @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
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                              @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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                                • RobbieTTR
                                  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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