Re: zfs destroy snapshot doesn't free space

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Aug-13 16:51:24 +0200, Andreas Mayer andimaye...@gmail.com wrote: 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 :) ). Does a reboot resolve

Re: zfs destroy snapshot doesn't free space

2010-08-14 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, what do you see when you cd to /var/.zfs? There should be a snapshot directory there. Is there any contents in it? Regards Christian Walther PS: Sorry for the repost, forgot to hit reply all (and fixed a bug, btw. It should be /var/.zfs insead of .zsh, of course.)

zfs destroy snapshot doesn't free space

2010-08-13 Thread Andreas Mayer
Hi, 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

Re: zfs destroy snapshot doesn't free space

2010-08-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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.

Re: zfs destroy snapshot doesn't free space

2010-08-13 Thread Andreas Mayer
$ uname -a FreeBSD wurd.dev001.net 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 2010/8/13 Malcolm Waltz mwa...@pacific.edu: Have you tried zfs list -t all ? I have, it produces this output: $ zfs list -t all NAME

Re: zfs destroy snapshot doesn't free space

2010-08-13 Thread Henri Hennebert
On 08/13/2010 20:02, Andreas Mayer wrote: $ uname -a FreeBSD wurd.dev001.net 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 2010/8/13 Malcolm Waltz mwa...@pacific.edu: Have you tried zfs list -t all ? I

Re: zfs destroy snapshot doesn't free space

2010-08-13 Thread Andreas Mayer
In the meanwhile, some Web applications (they don't even access /var but only /srv) don't work anymore because of very strange file not accessible and file not found errors although I haven't changed anything and the file system isn't full or something like that. I think the whole pool or serveral