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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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