Re: ZFS Root size keeps going down after upgrade to 13.2-release
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:52:52 UTC
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