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      jc1976
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      Hello all, very VERY new to this so please go easy on me.

      I recently setup pfsense 2.4.4.x (latest) on an old dell pc.

      1 hard drive, and it's an SSD (old intel 80gig, never used, laying around).
      it has 16 gigs of ram (yes, I know, more than enough, but that's the way it was so why not?).

      upon the initial setup/install of pfsense, I made a point to delete the swap partition. I have MORE than enough ram and don't wanna burn out the SDD.

      I setup /tmp and /var as ramdrives (1gig each).

      I've disabled all logging (that i'm aware of). and I have it set so that the ramdrives don't dump to disk when shutting down or rebooting.

      my question is: why is my /var folder up to 35% utilized despite reboots? I rebooted it last night, yet when it comes back up, it's still showing up. I thought upon reboot, it should be back to zero..

      what am I missing?

      thanks!!

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        jc1976 @jc1976
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        @jc1976

        No one will help me out?

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        • GrimsonG
          Grimson Banned
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          RTFM: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/book/config/advanced-misc.html#ram-disk-settings

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