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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
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        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
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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
                          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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                            • 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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