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    Disk Usage at 108%

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      willylumplump
      last edited by

      My disk usage has been is showing 108%. How is this possible any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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      • bmeeksB
        bmeeks
        last edited by bmeeks

        Not sure how the firewall is calculating that 108% number, but you for sure have something going on in /var. 5.7 GB there is a ton of space used. Do you have something like ntopng or Squid running? Both of those can chew up disk space quickly.

        Or are you running one of the IDS/IPS packages (Snort or Suricata) without log management enabled on the LOGS MGMT tab?

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          willylumplump
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          I'm running securita..... see my log management settings below (which are all default)Screen Shot 2020-06-18 at 7.28.07 PM.png Screen Shot 2020-06-18 at 7.27.54 PM.png

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            willylumplump
            last edited by

            I enabled directory size limit and that fixed it... Thanks!!! much appreciated

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              UFS keeps extra space that is not available to regular users so when the filesystem is completely filled for user and non-user data, it shows 108%.

              : tunefs -p / 
              tunefs: POSIX.1e ACLs: (-a)                                disabled
              tunefs: NFSv4 ACLs: (-N)                                   disabled
              tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l)                               disabled
              tunefs: soft updates: (-n)                                 enabled
              tunefs: soft update journaling: (-j)                       enabled
              tunefs: gjournal: (-J)                                     disabled
              tunefs: trim: (-t)                                         disabled
              tunefs: maximum blocks per file in a cylinder group: (-e)  4096
              tunefs: average file size: (-f)                            16384
              tunefs: average number of files in a directory: (-s)       64
              tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m)             8%
              tunefs: space to hold for metadata blocks: (-k)            6408
              tunefs: optimization preference: (-o)                      time
              tunefs: volume label: (-L)                                 
              

              Note the value for -m

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