Doug North wrote:
Thanks for all the help.
It looks like it had something to do with an old snapshot having a
reference to the files.
I destroyed an old BE with beadm and some old time slider snapshots and
tons of space was made available even though the snapshots sizes in zfs
list were very small 17K and so forth. Here is the zfs list although I
have destroyed all the snapshots. I am currently doing it again because
I still see the same result if I copy a file into the /root/iso
directory and rm it. I am looking to see if the du for the entire /
mount point goes down when I delete the file. I am suspicious that it
will not and that a snapshot or some zfs mechanism is keeping the files
around. I will post the results when it completes but it is taking
quite a while to get a du of my entire 80G partition.
Individual snapshots might be small because they only contain data
different from their source. But, as long as they contain blocks
referencing data you've removed in later snapshots, that space will
continue to be "used".
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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