virtual hard disk so big

skveen

Hello
Everyone

I installed pfsense using hyper-v. I just installed it and ran it without using it (no traffic passed through it). But why is the virtual hard disk so big? It only lasted 7 days and now it has reached 70G. It was only 3G at the beginning.

Gertjan

@skveen said in virtual hard disk so big:

It was only 3G at the beginning.

Are you sure ? My 4100 has 4 Gbytes RAM installed.
I know that a (this ?) hypervisor can grow the virtual disk dynamically 'if needed' and sure enough it did so as something is very wrong right at the start.

What happens if you give it a reasonable disk size like 10 GB - and lock that size = disable the hypervisor doing it's intelligent thing ?

skveen

@Gertjan

RAM 8 Gbytes ：New system disk size ：less than 4 Gbytes
and a week later ：

For test
RAM 2 Gbytes ：New system disk size ：1 Gbytes

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Just in the past 1 hour, the size has automatically increased by 300M.
I didn't do anything during this tiime

Gertjan

@skveen

Your the very first that shows me a system with more RAM as (hard/SSD°VM) disk space ...
I've never seen that before.
Why insisting with such very small disks ?

Does pfSense even fit on a 1 GBytes drive, leaving close to no free space available ?
Not even talking about swap space, which is 'normally' twice the RAM size ....

edit : Google told me you should read this : PfSense Hyper-V .vhdx growing like crazy