VAR out of space - Ram disk setting does nothing

[SteveITS]

@ngr2001 I’ve never had a problem setting RAM disk size but I recall a thread I think a month or two ago with a similar complaint.

[ngr2001]

@SteveITS

I searched and found no solution.

I am not apposed to disabling RAM Disks either, however after trying that I am still out of disk space. Is there any easy way to increase the disk size. Not sure what I am to do here.

[SteveITS]

@ngr2001 If you disable the RAM disk you’re still out of space? You should have the 112 GB. Get a bigger disk or figure out what’s using so much…?

[stephenw10]

What pfSense version is that?

[ngr2001]

@stephenw10

PFSense Plus
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[ngr2001]

@SteveITS

I disabled the RAM Disk and rebooted and now its still looks like this

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That doesnt seem to make sense to me.

I am running Suricata, I turned on log management but the 60Mb partition is still showing full.

[SteveITS]

@ngr2001 Are other changes retained after restart?

FWIW here is the other thread:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/195486/changes-to-ram-disk-size-not-affecting-actual-filesystem-size/11

[stephenw10]

Yeah I was thinking the same, it does seem likely to be the same cause. It's using the default values for the sizes there. I wasn't able to replicate it either.

Have you upgraded to 24.11 or is it a clean install?

Was it upgraded from CE?

[ngr2001]

@stephenw10

Clean install from a bootable usb stick. Was never upgraded, started as plus never ce.

[stephenw10]

Hmm, OK. At some point you did deliberately set RAM disks enabled though? But now there seems to be no way to disable them?

[ngr2001]

@stephenw10

That is correct.

In this case, I installed PFSense Plus clean from USB Boot stick. I then hand applied all my desired settings. Out of habit, the 1st thing I normally do after install is configure the RAM Disks. Only reason being, to extend the life of the SSD.

[ngr2001]

@SteveITS

Seems like other settings on the System - Advanced- Miscellaneous -
page are working. For example I enabled PowerD & QAT, both are working after reboot.

Other Settings:
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Evidence Working:
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[SteveITS]

@ngr2001 Is the setting in the config file the 40/60 or what you set?

[ngr2001]

@SteveITS

Which config file, not sure what you mean / asking.

I did clean normal install, next through all defaults. On 1st boot I enabled RAM Disks and set to 512Gb each, however that never took effect. It;s been stuck at 60Mb since install. I disabled RAM Disks, and its still shows 60Mb.

If there is a file you would like me to check let me know.

[SteveITS]

@ngr2001 Diagnostics/Backup will download it.

[stephenw10]

Could be some variation of this: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/16023 Though I've never seen that in 24.11.

If so it should be fixed in the next 25.03 build.

[ngr2001]

@SteveITS

RAM Disk is disabled currently, my backup config shows the bellow 2 values:

<use_mfs_tmp_size>512</use_mfs_tmp_size>
<use_mfs_var_size>512</use_mfs_var_size>

[ngr2001]

@stephenw10

When does that come out, anything I can do in the mean time ?

[SteveITS]

@ngr2001 It’s been in beta for a while:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/196342/pfsense-plus-25-03-beta-is-here

Vague guess, a week or two after an RC version so maybe in a month, give or take.

[ngr2001]

@SteveITS

If I wasn't going to use RAM Disks, is there an easy way to increase the disk partition size ?