Recommendation for using extra disk space

[Taomyn]

I've just had to replace the SSD in my firewall as I wanted the smaller drive for another machine where the larger spare I had would have been total overkill (it's for a Raspberry Pi). It's probably more than I need for the firewall but it's better than what my RPI will be i.e. just for Pi-Hole.


Now that it's replaced I have a lot of extra space and was wondering what best to do with it. Do I simply expand the main partition or can I use it for something else. E.g. expand the boot partition or maybe somehow convert to ZFS.

[cookiemonster]

Even on ZFS there is still not much to do with the space. I did think about hosting distro isos for PXE but that's about all.
I'm still loking out for a smaller disk myself to be more efficient too. That is to say we're so lucky that OPN is so light on storage requirements!

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gpart show
Password:
=>       40  234441568  ada0  GPT  (112G)
         40     409600     1  efi  (200M)
     409640       1024     2  freebsd-boot  (512K)
     410664        984        - free -  (492K)
     411648   16777216     3  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
   17188864  217251840     4  freebsd-zfs  (104G)
  234440704        904        - free -  (452K)

user@OPNsense:~ % zfs list
NAME                 USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
zroot               1.95G  97.8G    88K  /zroot
zroot/ROOT          1.62G  97.8G    88K  none
zroot/ROOT/default  1.62G  97.8G  1.62G  /
zroot/tmp           1.22M  97.8G  1.22M  /tmp
zroot/usr            352K  97.8G    88K  /usr
zroot/usr/home        88K  97.8G    88K  /usr/home
zroot/usr/ports       88K  97.8G    88K  /usr/ports
zroot/usr/src         88K  97.8G    88K  /usr/src
zroot/var            333M  97.8G    88K  /var
zroot/var/audit       88K  97.8G    88K  /var/audit
zroot/var/crash       88K  97.8G    88K  /var/crash
zroot/var/log        332M  97.8G   332M  /var/log
zroot/var/mail       112K  97.8G   112K  /var/mail
zroot/var/tmp         88K  97.8G    88K  /var/tmp

[Taomyn]

Is there any way to convert the UFS to ZFS? Thought maybe with the extra space it would allow me to do that in some way without needing to completely re-install.

[Greelan]

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=24174.0