Disk space issues
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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.
login as: admin
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:/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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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.