Hard disk only instead of CF card - Size?
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Hi, what will be the minimal size of an harddisk to use, is this depending on the amount of log files or rules and blocks?
Is there any recommendation for this?Thanks
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Very small by todays standards.
Everything is logged to ram anyway. If you want long term log storage you have to setup a syslog server.
Running the squid http proxy package takes up space.
You'll be fine with even the smallest drive you can buy new.Steve
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Thank you, I noticed this option in settings; Disable writing log files to the local RAM disk.
if enabled will it write to the harddisk then or do i really need to setup a remote syslog server?regards
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Nope, I'm pretty sure this hasn't changed in 2.0, you need a syslog server.
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Copying_Logs_to_a_Remote_Host_with_Syslog
However it is possible to run a syslog server on the pfSense box itself. This isn't the intended system though and as such isn't supported, may not survive across an upgrade for instance.
Search the forum.Steve
See: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,26829.0.html
and more usefully but older: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7793.0.html
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I'm using a 20 GB drive in my home 2.0 RC1 setup. The dashboard indicates I've used 1% lol. I have no special packages installed (was running HAVP but I reinstalled and haven't loaded anything), no IPv6 gitsync either. This is a basic raw 2.0 RC1 install. Contrast that to my 1.2.3 setup at work on a Dell PE 1650 with 36GB of RAID 5 storage; installed packages are HAVP, dashboard, snort, rate and a couple dashboard widgets for HAVP and it shows I'm using 24%. In other words any drive you find should be fine.
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Thanks a lot !!!! :)
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Hi, what will be the minimal size of an harddisk to use,
I have been running the full version of pfSense on a 1GB solid state disk module for over three years now.
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Thanks for all the responses, I can go on now with my project :-)
