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Need Help deleting files on PAN /dev/sda8 and /dev/root

sokonta — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 23:12:45 GMT

Hi All,

Need help on how to free up spaces on the below partitions on my PAN device, support cannot seem to figure this out. Please help..

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 4.0G 3.4G 407M 90% /
none 4.0G 56K 4.0G 1% /dev
/dev/sda5 24G 16G 7.3G 68% /opt/pancfg
/dev/sda6 4.0G 1.3G 2.6G 34% /opt/panrepo
tmpfs 4.0G 110M 3.8G 3% /dev/shm
cgroup_root 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /cgroup
/dev/sda8 12G 6.4G 5.0G 57% /opt/panlogs

and this too

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.9G 4.1G 3.5G 55% /
none 4.0G 60K 4.0G 1% /dev
/dev/sda5 24G 12G 11G 52% /opt/pancfg
/dev/sda6 6.0G 1.4G 4.3G 24% /opt/panrepo
tmpfs 4.0G 110M 3.8G 3% /dev/shm
cgroup_root 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /cgroup
/dev/sda8 32G 29G 1.8G 94% /opt/panlogs

Re: Need Help deleting files on PAN /dev/sda8 and /dev/root

Remo — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 06:54:48 GMT

Hi @sokonta

Did you already read this knowledgebasearticle about clearing disk space on the root partition: https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000ClaJCAS

About the /opt/panlogs you do not have to worry about. These are the actual logs (traffic, threat, url, ...) that the firewall writes to the disk. These logs will be automatically overwritten (actually this is also done on the root partition). By default the value there will not go above 95% but it depends how you allocated the diskspace for the different type of logs. Some more information about this paftition you can find here: https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000ClgZCAS