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      Fmstrat
      last edited by

      Hi all,

      I'm running pfsense off a thumbdrive, and my /tmp partition keeps filling up every time SNORT rules need to update. Is there any way to expand the /tmp partition?

      [2.1.2-RELEASE][root@pfsense.nowsci.local]/tmp(14): df -h
      Filesystem           Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
      /dev/ufs/pfsense1    1.8G    361M    1.3G    21%    /
      devfs                1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev
      /dev/ufs/cf           49M      4M     41M     9%    /cf
      /dev/md0              38M     26M    8.9M    75%    /tmp
      /dev/md1              57M     19M     34M    36%    /var
      devfs                1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /var/dhcpd/dev
      [2.1.2-RELEASE][root@pfsense.nowsci.local]/tmp(15): mount
      /dev/ufs/pfsense1 on / (ufs, local, noatime, synchronous)
      devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
      /dev/ufs/cf on /cf (ufs, local, noatime, synchronous)
      /dev/md0 on /tmp (ufs, local)
      /dev/md1 on /var (ufs, local)
      devfs on /var/dhcpd/dev (devfs, local)
      [2.1.2-RELEASE][root@pfsense.nowsci.local]/tmp(16):
      

      The above shows 75%, but it regularly hits 100% and I get dmesg errors.

      Thanks,
      Ben

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        You can adjust the size of /tmp and /var in System: Advanced: Miscellaneous: as long as you have ram spare to do so.

        Steve

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          Fmstrat
          last edited by

          @stephenw10:

          You can adjust the size of /tmp and /var in System: Advanced: Miscellaneous: as long as you have ram spare to do so.

          Steve

          Wow, I completely forgot that they were RamFS. Thanks.

          Ben

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