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    How do I delete the information on the hard disk ?

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    • F Offline
      firefox
      last edited by

      how do i do that ?
      i know how to ssh

      but how do i know the size of the file or is name ?

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      • stephenw10S Offline
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Connect to the console with SSH, go to the /var/squidguard directory and list the files with their size using, for example, 'ls -lhS'.

        Steve

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        • K Offline
          kejianshi
          last edited by

          I really am not seeing the issue here.  If you don't like seeing a high percentage of disk usage on a 20GB pfsense install, don't allocate 10GB to squid.

          Not that your current setting are bad.  They are fine.  But if it makes you happy to not utilize 50% of your disk space, just set the squid for 50000 instead of 10000.

          My squid installs ALWAYS filled the entire cache, and as far as I know, thats what it should be doing.  I think you are worried over nothing.

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          • F Offline
            firefox
            last edited by

            I really am not seeing the issue here.  If you don't like seeing a high percentage of disk usage on a 20GB pfsense install, don't allocate 10GB to squid.

            Not that your current setting are bad.  They are fine

            It may be works correctly
            It just seems odd to me
            It was a long time about 16 to 20 percent
            And within two weeks jumped to 60 percent
            I'm not going to change it
            I wanted to know why Out of curiosity

            If it works correctly now
            It means that it did not work correctly before

            go to the /var/squidguard

            /var/squidguard: Command not found.
            
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            • F Offline
              firefox
              last edited by

              I think I managed
              This command i did in the library /var/

              [2.1.5-RELEASE][admin@home.plex]/var(6): ls -lhS
              total 50
              drwxr-xr-x  18 root    wheel    1.0k Mar  9 14:55 db
              drwxr-xr-x   6 root    wheel    1.0k Mar 16 20:06 log
              drwxr-xr-x   6 root    wheel    1.0k Mar  5 18:42 run
              drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel    512B Aug 25  2014 account
              drwxr-xr-x   4 root    wheel    512B Aug 25  2014 at
              drwxr-x---   2 root    audit    512B Aug 25  2014 audit
              drwxr-x---   2 root    wheel    512B Aug 25  2014 backups
              drwxr-x---   2 root    wheel    512B Aug 25  2014 crash
              drwxr-x---   3 root    wheel    512B Aug 25  2014 cron
              drwxr-xr-x   8 root    wheel    512B Feb  3 15:44 dhcpd
              dr-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel    512B Feb  3 15:39 empty
              drwxr-xr-x   5 root    wheel    512B Mar 15 22:47 etc
              drwxrwxr-x   2 root    games    512B Aug 25  2014 games
              drwx------   2 root    wheel    512B Aug 25  2014 heimdal
              drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel    512B Feb  3 15:40 installer_logs
              drwxrwxr-x   2 root    mail     512B Feb 20 10:54 mail
              drwxr-xr-x   2 daemon  wheel    512B Aug 25  2014 msgs
              drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel    512B Aug 25  2014 named
              drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel    512B Aug 25  2014 preserve
              drwxrwxr-x   2 root    daemon   512B Aug 25  2014 rwho
              drwxr-xr-x   7 root    wheel    512B Aug 25  2014 spool
              drwxr-xr-x   5 proxy   proxy    512B Feb  3 16:00 squid
              drwxr-xr-x   3 root    wheel    512B Feb 27 19:08 squidGuard
              drwxrwxrwt   5 root    wheel    512B Mar 16 20:11 tmp
              drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel    512B Aug 25  2014 yp
              
              

              cant go to  squidGuard

              [2.1.5-RELEASE][admin@home.plex]/var(7): cd /squidGuard/
              /squidGuard/: No such file or directory.
              
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                doktornotor Banned
                last edited by

                @firefox:

                cant go to  squidGuard

                [2.1.5-RELEASE][admin@home.plex]/var(7): cd /squidGuard/
                /squidGuard/: No such file or directory.
                

                Yeah, layer 8 error…

                
                cd /var/squidGuard/
                
                
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                • K Offline
                  kejianshi
                  last edited by

                  Where did the "var" go?

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                  • F Offline
                    firefox
                    last edited by

                    At first I did

                    cd /var/squidGuard/
                    

                    it give me this

                    /var/squidguard: Command not found.
                    

                    so i try this

                    cd /var/
                    

                    and then i try```
                    cd /squidGuard/

                    it didnt work
                    
                    So I wrote down the command in the folder /var/
                    

                    ls -lhS

                    
                    Very strange
                    I tried this order exactly it did not work before
                    Here is outcome for ls -lhS in  /var/squidGuard/
                    
                    

                    total 2
                    drwxr-xr-x  2 proxy  proxy  512B Mar 16 00:00 log

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                      doktornotor Banned
                      last edited by

                      @firefox:

                      At first I did

                      cd /var/squidGuard/
                      

                      it give me this

                      /var/squidguard: Command not found.
                      

                      Impossible. And kindly note that the filesystem is case sensitive. /var/squidGuard is NOT the same thing like /var/squidguard

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                      • F Offline
                        firefox
                        last edited by

                        Probably that's why it did not work
                        In your latest post
                        I just copied the command I pasted into the terminal
                        Not like before

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                        • K Offline
                          kejianshi
                          last edited by

                          I wonder what would happen if you went to diagnostics > command prompt

                          and entered:

                          ls - l /var/squidguard

                          ???

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                            firefox
                            last edited by

                            $ ls - l /var/squidguard
                            ls: -: No such file or directory
                            ls: /var/squidguard: No such file or directory
                            ls: l: No such file or directory
                            

                            I guess it's like doktornotor
                            Said

                            /var/squidGuard is NOT the same thing like /var/squidguard

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                            • K Offline
                              kejianshi
                              last edited by

                              OK - got that…

                              Have you tried using the correct case and spelling?

                              At this point you should know that right?

                              I'm not running squidguard or SquIdGuaRD or whatever, but if I were I bet that ls -l /var would show me the correct spelling of that...

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                                doktornotor Banned
                                last edited by

                                There's also this wonderful Tab key…

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                                • stephenw10S Offline
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  Anyway you can see above that the directory is, oddly, called squidGuard and the file in it is <1K so not a problem.

                                  Steve

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                                  • K Offline
                                    kejianshi
                                    last edited by

                                    Well - lets see…

                                    10GB squid cache + 6GB (thats my basic install with very few packages and no squid)

                                    So 10 + 6 = 16GB

                                    So what percent of 20 is 16?  like 80%  ?

                                    And thats what I would expect if I was on your settings with squid and that drive.  If you get down to 5% or something then panic.

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                                      firefox
                                      last edited by

                                      Thank you all

                                      If you get down to 5% or something then panic.

                                      why ?
                                      What is this signals ?

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                                      • K Offline
                                        kejianshi
                                        last edited by

                                        Well - If you have settings that SHOULD chew up 70% of your disk but instead all of your disk space is being used, then you have a problem.

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