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    How do I delete the information on the hard disk ?

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    • K Offline
      kejianshi
      last edited by

      Where did the "var" go?

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        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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              • 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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                          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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                            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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