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      PertFlavus
      last edited by

      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:

      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

      Doing some digging I believe this is due to the /var filesystem being full.
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      /var: write failed, filesystem is full
      *** Welcome to pfSense 2.1-RELEASE-pfSense (amd64) on pfsense ***

      [2.1-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.local]/var/log(8): df -h
      Filesystem    Size    Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
      /dev/ad4s1a    217G    1.6G    198G    1%    /
      devfs          1.0k    1.0k      0B  100%    /dev
      /dev/md0      495M    646k    455M    0%    /tmp
      /dev/md1      495M    495M    -39M  109%    /var
      devfs          1.0k    1.0k      0B  100%    /var/dhcpd/dev

      [2.1-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.local]/var(16): du -h /var/
      2.0k    /var/.snap
      2.0k    /var/db/entropy
      7.5M    /var/db/rrd
      2.0k    /var/db/ntop/rrd/graphics
      2.0k    /var/db/ntop/rrd/flows
      3.7M    /var/db/ntop/rrd/interfaces/em0
      3.7M    /var/db/ntop/rrd/interfaces
      3.8M    /var/db/ntop/rrd
      475M    /var/db/ntop
      2.0k    /var/db/pingstatus
      2.0k    /var/db/pingmsstatus
      483M    /var/db
      46k    /var/tmp
      46k    /var/run
      2.0k    /var/log/ntp
      9.3M    /var/log
      2.0k    /var/etc/openvpn
      2.0k    /var/etc/openvpn-csc
      2.0k    /var/etc/l2tp-vpn
      44k    /var/etc
      2.0k    /var/at/jobs
      4.0k    /var/at
      2.0k    /var/empty
      2.0k    /var/dhcpd/var/run
      2.0k    /var/dhcpd/var/db
      6.0k    /var/dhcpd/var
      512B    /var/dhcpd/dev/fd
      512B    /var/dhcpd/dev/led
      512B    /var/dhcpd/dev/usb
      512B    /var/dhcpd/dev/pts
      2.5k    /var/dhcpd/dev
      4.0k    /var/dhcpd/etc
      1.8M    /var/dhcpd/usr/local/sbin
      1.8M    /var/dhcpd/usr/local
      1.8M    /var/dhcpd/usr
      1.2M    /var/dhcpd/lib
      2.0k    /var/dhcpd/run
      3.0M    /var/dhcpd
      2.0k    /var/cron/tabs
      4.0k    /var/cron
      495M    /var/

      I thought this might be useful output, since it seemed quite easy for me to unintentionally exceed my disk partition size.

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        PertFlavus
        last edited by

        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.

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