Extending with a SSD for "SQUID Proxy Server"

[Rachr310]

Hello there…!

For the first, i'll apologize for my bad english, but feel free to pin something out that you didn't understand in my text :-)

I have some trouble upgrading my pfSense box with some more storage, without reinstalling, but just adding a HDD/SSD more to the system at then format/mount it to the pfSense.

My plan is to install a Samsung SSD with 128GB of storage, for only using it for my "SQUID Proxy Server" as web cache, i've come so far to install the SDD in the system, but i have trouble format/mounting it to the OS, so i can use it as cache space for SQUID.

I have tried many guides, many commands and so on, but nothing have worked for me jet :-(

I hope that there are some geniuses nice guys that would like to help me with this :-)

My machine i have pfSense 2.4.2-RELEASE-p1 (amd64) on is a GIADA F102D... don't blame me for the small hardware, it's actually running like a charm :-)

Cheers! :-)

[Grimson]

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=140167.0
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=141093.0

[Rachr310]

Hi Grimson.

I have tried that before, and i can't get it to work :(

[kentuss]

Adding new drive for squid cache drive

try to mount on /var/squid/cache as gui default

exp : your ssd as ada1

gpart create -s gpt ad1
gpart show ada6
gpart add -t freebsd-ufs ada1
newfs /dev/ada1p1
gpart show

now your ssd as /dev/ada1p1
then try to mount as proxy cache drive >>> mount /dev/ada1p1 /var/squid/cache
then ckeck list all drive >> df -h

Dont forget to lock your drive to system at fstab.*  ( edit file at /etc/fstab.*)

add this to fstab >> /dev/ada1p1      /var/squid/cache  ufs  rw,noatime        2  2

Good luck  ;)