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I ended up increasing the virtual disk and increasing the partition size as discribed here https://roofman.me/2021/01/26/opnsense-resize-disk-space/ with the difference that instead of growfs I had to use

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zpool online -e zroot vtbd0p4

I tried creating a new VM with a clean OPNsense installation but encountered several issues with it. I may try it later.
The issues I encountered:

• The new instance immediately starts all services (e.g. DHCP) causing connectivity disruptions while I still installing it.
• It does not in fact asks how I want to partition the disk. There is an "Extended Installation" option with options to modify partitions, but it seems to be bugged and I did not manage to change sizes

@Ice_Drake1 It seems that I am exactly in the same boat as you was. Can you elaborate on how to boot it up with "Magic Partition" and shift the partition that way?

I managed to resize the swap partition and its new size is displayed correctly in the Web UI.

I am not sure how to proceed with the data partition resize though. It is the last partition and I guess I need to move it first.

Any advise?

I said that there is a 8GB swap partition, not that it uses it. It actually does not use it at all.
It's just strange that OPNsense created such a large swap partition by default

Using the command 'gpart show', I noticed that the swap partition occupies 8GB out of the total 10GB disk space. While this clarifies the storage situation, it is quite surprising.
Considering the VM has 4GB of RAM and is currently utilizing less than 3GB, is such a sizable swap space truly essential?

The disk was partitioned by OPNsense installation, so there should be some reason behind it.

Now what I know what to look for I found thesehttps://roofman.me/2021/01/26/opnsense-resize-disk-space/ instructions for OPNsense swap partition. I am thinking to take 4GB from swap and add it to the main partition.

I am trying to upgrade from 23.1.11_2 to 23.7 and getting the following message:

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Fetching packages-23.7-amd64.tar: ..............[fetch: /var/cache/opnsense-update/60516/packages-23.7-amd64.tar] failed, no update found
Sometimes it also adds "No space left on device". I have it installed on 10GB disk, so space should not be an issue.

If it is indeed insufficient space, how should I go about increasing it with minimum disruption to the service? I am running it as a VM in Proxmox.