High disk usage
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Greetings Wizards,
I'm in the process of setting up a virtual pfSense machine. Currently, it's on an isolated network with no traffic going through it. I recently noticed that disk usage is very high, df -h shows the following:
As you can see, /dev/gpt/pfsense is at 85% capacity.
I only have a few packages installed, open-vm-tools, snort, squid3, squidguard…
I've tried clearing all the logs I can find, but I don't seem to be able to reduce disk usage in any way. It seems very strange to me, the VM is currently on an isolated network. I wouldn't expect it to be logging much of anything.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be using all of the disk space?
Many Thanks.
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How about the Squid cache? ::)
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I've tried hitting the "Clear Disk Cache NOW" button under local cache - no change in disk usage.
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Shell in and then run:
du -Pshx /*
This will tell you which folder(s) are using all your space. From there you can start investigating the larger folders.
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Thanks KOM, that was very useful.
I ran:```
du -h -P shx /* | sort -hand it showed that the Squid Proxy logs were taking up almost all the available storage: [http://imgur.com/a/RTRDK](http://imgur.com/a/RTRDK) I couldn't see any obvious way to clear /var/squid/logs, (There didn't appear to be any sort of button under Squid Proxy Server > General > Logging Settings - am I just blind?) resetting system logs didn't seem to make any difference either so I manually deleted the files via command prompt and did a reboot. Disk space recovered. Help much appreciated. Cheers, Wizard1
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I'd suggest to revisit the 'Rotate Logs' setting in Squid and configure something there.
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Thanks for the suggestion doktornotor, I've gone ahead and set the logs to rotate every few days.
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Well no problem, I'd put a default value there but - users need to enable logging first, and when they do so, they are in a better position to pick an appropriate value for that depending on their HDD space.
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Just curious, how many days do you guy set on the rotate cache? And also, any other tip on how to make space for HDD?
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@wizard1:
resetting system logs didn't seem to make any difference either so I manually deleted the files via command prompt and did a reboot.
Disk space recovered.
Can I ask on how you did the manual deleting of files?
I'm experiencing this now:
845M /usr
43G /varTIA!
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