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Title: How to add multiple hard disk in opnsense?
Post by: niltonjr on June 22, 2018, 05:55:34 pm

Hello friends I am new to the world opnsense and I do not know much about my problem is the following I have a network with many users and I cache in opnsense only my hdd is almost full and I want to add more space but the opnsense does not recognize the new one hdd how do i add more hdd to opnsense?

Title: Re: How to add multiple hard disk in opnsense?
Post by: bartjsmit on June 23, 2018, 10:27:20 am

The only data in OPNsense is stored in the config.xml file. System, Configuration, Backups.

If 'many users' means that you want to minimise downtime in a corporate environment then:

1. Build a new firewall with a larger disk
2. Back up the config from the old firewall
3. Import it in the new one
4. put the new one in the place of the old one.

You will have a short outage which you can plan out of hours. The web cache will start empty but will quickly fill to its previous size as users revisit their usual sites.

If you need to minimise cost, do the same but only swap out the hard disk. This will mean a longer outage, largely dependent on your hardware skills.

Bart...

Title: Re: How to add multiple hard disk in opnsense?
Post by: franco on June 23, 2018, 10:29:19 am

It works like on FreeBSD, here is the relevant manual section with great step by step information:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks.html

You will need a console to make this happen as we do not have GUI support for such complex tasks.


Cheers,
Franco