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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      doktornotor Banned
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      There's also button in the GUI now to wipe Squid cache. Though, it won't do anything useful if you moved the cache out of /var/squid hierarchy - need to do things manually if that's the case.

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        atn78
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        I deleted some files in the lightsquid directory but it steels at 97%

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          doktornotor Banned
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          du -hd1 /var
          
          

          There. Run the some command for the directory under the biggest one you have found above. Find what's using your disk space. Delete it. Stop using such package or limit the logging/caching/god knows what properly. Or get a properly sized HDD for the task.

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            dgall
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            I had the same problem and after a couple of days with out doing anything it went back down by itself

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              atn78
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              @doktornotor:

              
              du -hd1 /var
              
              

              There. Run the some command for the directory under the biggest one you have found above. Find what's using your disk space. Delete it. Stop using such package or limit the logging/caching/god knows what properly. Or get a properly sized HDD for the task.

              I run this command and this is what it displays :
              92K    /var/etc
              4.0K    /var/yp
              44K    /var/unbound
              12K    /var/tmp
              28K    /var/spool
              4.0K    /var/rwho
              124K    /var/run
              4.0K    /var/preserve
              4.0K    /var/msgs
              4.0K    /var/mail
              12K    /var/log
              4.0K    /var/heimdal
              4.0K    /var/games
              4.0K    /var/empty
              17M    /var/db
              8.0K    /var/cron
              8.0K    /var/crash
              4.0K    /var/cache
              4.0K    /var/backups
              4.0K    /var/authpf
              12K    /var/audit
              12K    /var/at
              4.0K    /var/account
              52K    /var/installer_logs
              3.3M    /var/dhcpd
              1.2M    /var/squid
              4.0K    /var/lightsquid
              32K    /var/squidGuard
              22M    /var

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                doktornotor Banned
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                @atn78:

                I have no idea what's /dev/ufsid/558d3d40eba9a34e - if you hacked pfSense to mount another disk completely outside of existing directory structure, you need to pick up the pieces.

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                  David_W
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                  @doktornotor:

                  @atn78:

                  I have no idea what's /dev/ufsid/558d3d40eba9a34e - if you hacked pfSense to mount another disk completely outside of existing directory structure, you need to pick up the pieces.

                  It's a reference to the disk containing the root file system using ufsid, which you can switch to using /usr/local/sbin/ufslabels.sh

                  The big advantage of this approach is that changes to controller names don't leave your system unbootable.

                  It's clear that the OP's high disk usage is in /var/db from the output posted, so the next step is du -hd1 /var/db

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                    atn78
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                    with du -hd1 /var/db the result is :
                    4.6M    /var/db/rrd
                    616K    /var/db/pbi
                    4.0K    /var/db/portsnap
                    4.0K    /var/db/ports
                    4.0K    /var/db/pkg
                    4.0K    /var/db/ipf
                    4.0K    /var/db/hyperv
                    4.0K    /var/db/freebsd-update
                    4.0K    /var/db/entropy
                    4.0K    /var/db/pingstatus
                    4.0K    /var/db/pingmsstatus
                    4.0K    /var/db/cpelements
                    11M    /var/db/ntop
                    4.0K    /var/db/squidGuard
                    17M    /var/db

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                      David_W
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                      I read your original output twice, came to the correct conclusion, then came to an incorrect conclusion and posted based on it. I mixed up M and G. /var is not the problem - it's only a few tens of megabytes. You're looking for something that uses gigabytes.

                      Try du -hd1 /

                      I have a suspicion that full backups in /root might be the problem. What does ls -l /root/*.tgz show?

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                        doktornotor Banned
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                        Look. There's a GUI button to wipe Squid cache. Why on earth don't you use it?! Where did you place the Squid cache? How many disks you have on your pfSense box?

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                          atn78
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                          Where is that button? I can't find it. Squid is placed under /var/squid/cache. I have one disk.

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                            doktornotor Banned
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                            It's very surprisingly located on the 'Local Cache' tab…

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                              atn78
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                              I don't have this button

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                                doktornotor Banned
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                                Yeah, when you are using Squid 2.7, you don't and won't have any such button. Noone maintains that package. No good reason to use it either. Dead crap.

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                                  muswellhillbilly
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                                  David_W is right. This doesn't look like a Squid cache problem. Run the command he suggests (du -hd1 /) and see what the output shows. You're looking for a folder somewhere containing gigs of data.

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                                    atn78
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                                    I run it;=. It displays :
                                    4.0K    /.snap
                                    17M    /boot
                                    904K    /bin
                                    12K    /conf.default
                                    3.0K    /dev
                                    18M    /etc
                                    56K    /home
                                    14M    /kernels
                                    264K    /libexec
                                    7.9M    /lib
                                    405M    /root
                                    3.4M    /sbin
                                    31G    /usr
                                    50M    /var
                                    248K    /tmp
                                    4.0K    /mnt
                                    5.9M    /cf
                                    4.0K    /media
                                    4.0K    /proc
                                    4.0K    /rescue
                                    4.0K    /scripts
                                    4.0K    /tank
                                    184K    /lost+found
                                    32G    /

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                                      muswellhillbilly
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                                      @atn78:

                                      31G    /usr

                                      There's your problem. Run 'du -hd1 /usr' to see what subdirectory under there is taking up all the space and address the issue accordingly.

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                                        atn78
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                                        When I run it, the result is :
                                        31G    ./pbi
                                        4.0K    ./obj
                                        460K    ./libexec
                                        16K    ./lib32
                                        38M    ./share
                                        30M    ./lib
                                        5.3M    ./bin
                                        5.5M    ./sbin
                                        155M    ./local
                                        31G    .

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                                          muswellhillbilly
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                                          Keep going. So what folder under '/usr/pbi' is full? (Hint: run 'du -hd1 /usr/pbi'). My guess is that you have a load of Squidguard cache info sitting in there.

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                                            atn78
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                                            I run it :
                                            12K    ./etc
                                            28K    ./share
                                            4.0K    ./rc.d
                                            16K    ./bin
                                            8.0K    ./man
                                            4.0K    ./.hashdir
                                            211M    ./freeradius-i386
                                            73M    ./squid-i386
                                            399M    ./ntopng-i386
                                            30G    ./sarg-i386
                                            41M    ./bandwidthd-i386
                                            31G    .

                                            then I run du -hd1/sarg-i386/ and the result is :
                                            30G    ./local
                                            4.0K    ./rc.d
                                            4.0K    ./pbimeta
                                            4.0K    ./virtbase
                                            4.0K    ./linux
                                            4.0K    ./run
                                            12K    ./pbiconf
                                            36K    ./bin
                                            30G    .
                                            then I run du -hd1/sarg-i386/local and the result is :
                                            8.7M    ./sbin
                                            6.0M    ./share
                                            1.1M    ./etc
                                            2.2M    ./include
                                            14M    ./lib
                                            56K    ./libdata
                                            2.1M    ./bin
                                            816K    ./info
                                            30G    ./sarg-reports
                                            30G    .

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