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Date:      Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:52:52 +0100
From:      Kaya Saman <kayasaman@optiplex-networks.com>
To:        freebsd@vanderzwan.org
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS Root size keeps going down after upgrade to 13.2-release
Message-ID:  <43134b2d-6a55-3b05-e5ea-7ab40e566e45@optiplex-networks.com>
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On 8/21/23 15:33, freebsd@vanderzwan.org wrote:
>
>> On 21 Aug 2023, at 16:25, Kaya Saman <kayasaman@optiplex-networks.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I just responded to Olivier above but I have managed to free up the necessary space by deleting all the snapshots:
>>
>>
>> df -h
>> Filesystem                              Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>> zroot/ROOT/default                       89G     36G     53G 41%    /
>>
>>
>> For some reason some of the snapshots were automatically 'cloned' and exactly as you suggested above there was a fair amount of space sharing between snapshots. This of course resulted in data being removed from the main snapshot but still remained on disk due another snapshot referencing that data....
>>
>> Very confusing for an automated process but anyway, I have space again :-)
>>
>>
> Not entirely automatic. I think  they are leftovers from updating your server.
> The freebsd-update tool automatically  creates a new boot environment  when updating. That way you can  roll back  in case an update fails.
> If the update is successful and rollback is not needed any more you can delete these,
>
> 	Paul
>

Most probably... at least there is no harm in deleting things in any case.


Thanks so much again for all the help and assistance :-)


Best Regards,


Kaya




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