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    How do I delete the information on the hard disk ?

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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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            • D Offline
              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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                  • D Offline
                    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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                        • F Offline
                          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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                                  • F Offline
                                    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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