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Root partition is filling up - please check. Current usage: 85%

Dale McKay 11 months ago

Version 9.711005

Recurring emails about /dev/sda6 utilization. Note 4.1G in /var/storage/chroot-http/var/run/nav1

There are no updates to be applied. All but 2 backups have been deleted.

du -shx * in / shows 3.1G in var

du -shx * in /var shows 2.2G in pattern

I have read every article that I could find about this issue and haven't been able to resolve the issue.

I need to get /dev/sda6 below 85% utilization.

Any ideas?

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0 BAlfson 11 months ago

I bet you will find lots of old crash dumps with:

ll /var/storage/cores

You can rm any file that's not needed to investigate a current problem.

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0 Dale McKay 11 months ago in reply to BAlfson

Bob,

Already deleted them. There were just two of them.
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0 Dale McKay 11 months ago in reply to BAlfson

The plot thickens....
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0 BAlfson 11 months ago in reply to Dale McKay

That 289M certainly isn't enough to make a big difference. Must be something else unusual in /var/storage. Try

du -shx /var/storage/* |sort -rh |head -10

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0 Dale McKay 11 months ago in reply to BAlfson

1.7G ~ rough math.
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0 Dale McKay 11 months ago in reply to BAlfson

Interesting that du -shx /var/storage/* does not reflect the 4.x GB that df-h says is in /var/storage/chroot-http/var/run/navl

(See first screenshot)
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0 BAlfson 11 months ago in reply to Dale McKay

df -h shows the usage of the partition that /var/storage/chroot-http/var/run/navl is in, the / partition.

/var/storage/chroot-http/var looks suspiciously large.

I'm out of guesses, Dale - what does Sophos Support say about this?

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0 Dale McKay 11 months ago in reply to BAlfson

As far as I know, I am unsupported. This is in my home lab. Not good that you are out of ideas.....
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0 BAlfson 11 months ago in reply to Dale McKay

What if you du /var/storage/chroot-http/var, Dale, and look for what's so big there?

Since it's your home lab, you might consider taking some config backups off and re-imaging with the latest ISO.

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0 Dale McKay 11 months ago in reply to BAlfson

Per your suggestion.
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0 Dale McKay 11 months ago in reply to BAlfson

If I rebuild, would a weekly config backup get me back to 100%? Never done a backup restore.

Can I just LiveCD (gparted) and expand the partition?
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0 BAlfson 11 months ago in reply to Dale McKay

You can generate config backups at will. I would get a new one off the UTM as well as a couple other recent ones just to be safe. Put the one, most-recent backup on a USB memory stick, insert it and power the UTM up.

The only things you lose with a re-image and restore is the logs and reporting. If those are important to you, you can copy them off and back on with WinSCP.

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0 BAlfson 11 months ago in reply to Dale McKay

You can generate config backups at will. I would get a new one off the UTM as well as a couple other recent ones just to be safe. Put the one, most-recent backup on a USB memory stick, insert it and power the UTM up.

The only things you lose with a re-image and restore is the logs and reporting. If those are important to you, you can copy them off and back on with WinSCP.

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