Re: ZFS Root size keeps going down after upgrade to 13.2-release

On 22 August 2023 12:33:47 am AEST, 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

s/can/definitely should/  ?

I can't resist noting that despite showing off my extreme ignorance and lack of adventurousness, I'm once again relieved to have stuck with boring old UFS - for me always reliable and uncontroversial.

cheers, Ian