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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
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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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