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      echinida
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      I have a Fujitsu s920 with an 8Gb mSATA disk drive and a functioning 23.05.1 pfSense+ install. The disc usage is reported as 70% of 1.8Gb and I guess this is because the / partition is not sized to use the whole 8Gb of the disk. I'm concerned that if I add a few packages, eg openvpn adguard home, I will run into memory problems.
      Is my diagnosis correct and if so how can I change the partition size non destructively?

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        Gertjan @echinida
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        @echinida said in Disk reported as 2GB but is 8GB:

        I change the partition size non destructively?

        Most probably : possible.
        But the time it takes go get skilled at 'GPT' or 'MBR' editing is .... not worth it.
        Not part of the "pfSense : do this and you'll be fine" documentation, as far as I know.

        If you have to insist on 'non destructive' part, then you should know that I already know that your small drive (8 is also small) will get used .... and it will die anyway.
        replacing == destructive.

        What about : remove the drive, add it to a classic PC, get a tool like Partitio Magic and now you'll have the full GUI power at your finger tips.
        Probably not worth it neither as even this option will take far more time.

        I always though that the pfSense (ZFS) installer just takes all the space that is available, leaving some space for a boot partition and a swap partition.
        When I did a clean install with 22.05 (to go to ZFS) on my 4200 MAX, I accepted default values.
        If you have a "2 Gbytes" then that was an admin's choice.

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          If the rest of the drive is actually empty you can use growfs to fill it. But it's probably using the reset for SWAP etc.
          Try running: gpart show

          Steve

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            echinida @stephenw10
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            @stephenw10
            Thanks, the output from that is
            => 40 15622064 ada0 GPT (7.4G)
            40 409600 1 efi (200M)
            409640 1024 2 freebsd-boot (512K)
            410664 984 - free - (492K)
            411648 2097152 3 freebsd-swap (1.0G)
            2508800 13111296 4 freebsd-zfs (6.3G)
            15620096 2008 - free - (1.0M)

            Which I guess is what it should be?

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              Are you running Plus? Check System > Boot Environments. You probably have a bunch of old ZFS snaps you can remove to free space.

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