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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
                    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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                        • 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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                            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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