<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Disk space issues]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Hi, So I installed pfsense on a system with a large harddrive and let the system do all the partition work. I encountered an issue that is causing dhcp leases to fail:</p>
<p dir="auto">Dec 6 15:20:49 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.62 (192.168.0.254) from 14:7d:c5:18:9e:8f (android-2dc1463dcd3fbd17) via em0: database update failed</p>
<p dir="auto">Doing some digging I believe this is due to the /var filesystem being full.<br />
login as: admin<br />
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.<br />
Password:</p>
<p dir="auto">/var: write failed, filesystem is full<br />
*** Welcome to pfSense 2.1-RELEASE-pfSense (amd64) on pfsense ***</p>
<p dir="auto">[2.1-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.local]/var/log(8): df -h<br />
Filesystem    Size    Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on<br />
/dev/ad4s1a    217G    1.6G    198G    1%    /<br />
devfs          1.0k    1.0k      0B  100%    /dev<br />
/dev/md0      495M    646k    455M    0%    /tmp<br />
/dev/md1      495M    495M    -39M  109%    /var<br />
devfs          1.0k    1.0k      0B  100%    /var/dhcpd/dev</p>
<p dir="auto">[2.1-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.local]/var(16): du -h /var/<br />
2.0k    /var/.snap<br />
2.0k    /var/db/entropy<br />
7.5M    /var/db/rrd<br />
2.0k    /var/db/ntop/rrd/graphics<br />
2.0k    /var/db/ntop/rrd/flows<br />
3.7M    /var/db/ntop/rrd/interfaces/em0<br />
3.7M    /var/db/ntop/rrd/interfaces<br />
3.8M    /var/db/ntop/rrd<br />
475M    /var/db/ntop<br />
2.0k    /var/db/pingstatus<br />
2.0k    /var/db/pingmsstatus<br />
483M    /var/db<br />
46k    /var/tmp<br />
46k    /var/run<br />
2.0k    /var/log/ntp<br />
9.3M    /var/log<br />
2.0k    /var/etc/openvpn<br />
2.0k    /var/etc/openvpn-csc<br />
2.0k    /var/etc/l2tp-vpn<br />
44k    /var/etc<br />
2.0k    /var/at/jobs<br />
4.0k    /var/at<br />
2.0k    /var/empty<br />
2.0k    /var/dhcpd/var/run<br />
2.0k    /var/dhcpd/var/db<br />
6.0k    /var/dhcpd/var<br />
512B    /var/dhcpd/dev/fd<br />
512B    /var/dhcpd/dev/led<br />
512B    /var/dhcpd/dev/usb<br />
512B    /var/dhcpd/dev/pts<br />
2.5k    /var/dhcpd/dev<br />
4.0k    /var/dhcpd/etc<br />
1.8M    /var/dhcpd/usr/local/sbin<br />
1.8M    /var/dhcpd/usr/local<br />
1.8M    /var/dhcpd/usr<br />
1.2M    /var/dhcpd/lib<br />
2.0k    /var/dhcpd/run<br />
3.0M    /var/dhcpd<br />
2.0k    /var/cron/tabs<br />
4.0k    /var/cron<br />
495M    /var/</p>
<p dir="auto">I thought this might be useful output, since it seemed quite easy for me to unintentionally exceed my disk partition size.</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/63526/disk-space-issues</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:02:38 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://forum.netgate.com/topic/63526.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:31:49 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Disk space issues on Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:39:57 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">And naturally on further inspection I find it to be my fault. Ram disks are set to 512mb and ntop was running on said ramdisk. Neither of which are defaults.</p>
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