ZFS and free space

Dean E. Weimer dweimer at dweimer.net
Tue Aug 15 18:54:45 UTC 2017


On 2017-08-15 1:49 pm, Johan Helsingius wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Apologies if this is a total noobie question, but I am new to ZFS.
> My problem is that 1.8 Tb of disk space has mysteriously disappeared
> from my file server:
> 
> # df -h | grep home
> zroot/home            6.0T    6.0T     48G    99%    /usr/home/storage
> zroot/usr/home        4.2T    4.2T     48G    99%    /usr/home
> 
> du -sh /usr/home/*
> 715M    /usr/home/julf
> 4.2T    /usr/home/storage
> 
> So where did the 1.8T go? Don't think the ZFS overhead is that big.
> And no, there are no deleted files hanging about.
> 
> 	Julf


do you have snapshots?

run:

zfs -t all | grep home

And see if there are any of them eating up the disk space.


-- 
Thanks,
    Dean E. Weimer
    http://www.dweimer.net/


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