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    Moving PFSense to secondary drive?

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      Flashpoint
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      Hey guys,

      I installed PFSense today, and well I am a lazy cunt and I was wondering if there is a way to move PFSense to another drive, or at least make PFSense use my HDD for plugins/packages and logs, etc.

      I installed PFSense on a 1gig CF card and well its causing issues. I have a 250GB HDD connected to the system as well. I was wondering if I could use it while the OS stays on the CF card? If not, what are my options without having to install PFSense again?

      Thanks for your time, and help!

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        deajan
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        Hello, as you're using a CF card, you have a NanoBSD setup which won't be of great use if you intend to use Squid or any other disk space hungry plugins.
        The best advice I can think of is to make a clean install and restore the config file from the NanoBSD install, and then reinstall the packages.

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          Flashpoint
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          @deajan:

          Hello, as you're using a CF card, you have a NanoBSD setup which won't be of great use if you intend to use Squid or any other disk space hungry plugins.
          The best advice I can think of is to make a clean install and restore the config file from the NanoBSD install, and then reinstall the packages.

          Yeah I decided to do that, moving files would most likely cause major issues in the future.

          Thank you!

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