On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 04:51:24PM +0200, Andreas Mayer wrote:
> I have a problem with my ZFS storage: some application filled a
> certain directory in /var completely up with data and the server runs
> a script which takes a snapshot every night. So, ~650 GB of the
> available 700 GB were filled up.
>
> Then I destroyed the last two snapshots (each referencing about 300
> GB) and the files on the live system so that now there are no
> snapshots for
> /var and "du -hs /var" reports a size of 2 GB.
>
> However, zfs still reports that 623G are referenced:
>
> # zfs list rpool/var
> NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
> rpool/var 623G 48.4G 623G /var
>
> # zfs get all rpool/var
> ...
> rpool/var usedbysnapshots 0 -
> rpool/var usedbydataset 623G -
> rpool/var usedbychildren 0 -
> rpool/var usedbyrefreservation 0 -
> ...
>
> If I take a snapshot again, this snapshot also references 623G.
>
> What can I do to reclaim this space? I have to do this before I can
> set a quota (I have set quotas for all other file systems now :) ).
Can you provide uname -a output please? Thanks.
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