The “archive” zone, which is our email archives for the past 17 years, would be 
the only thing that might come anywhere close to 11G.  

I save some of my current email files there, just so I don’t have a set of 
folders on our Dovecot system, and another on the email archives, which uses 
UW-Imap.

All the zones, including the archive zone, make backups of the data, and save 
them to a backup server, each night.

Each zone has two copies of data, such as:

EmailArchive01.tgz
EmailArchive02.tgz

The "EmailArchive02.tgz" file gets deleted.  "EmailArchive01.tgz" gets renamed 
"EmailArchive02.tgz".  Then the existing data gets named "EmailArchive01.tgz".


Also, if I was to delete that "OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0705A” boot environment, 
would that free up 10G of space?



On Jul 30, 2014, at 2:37 AM, Mansion, James <[email protected]> wrote:

> Surely - creating the snapshot doesn't use much room.
> 
> It is subsequent updates to files in the snapshot that consume room through 
> copy on write.
> 
> That means that the space is used later, during normal operations.
> 
> Would that explain it?  Do you have 11G of database files in constant use?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dormition Skete (Hotmail) [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 30 July 2014 09:33
> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disk Space Disappearing.
> 
> Ok, well I think I know roughly what happened now.
> 
> On the 23rd, I detached all my non-global zones, took snapshots of them, and 
> did a "zfs send" on them to another machine, for a backup, so I could easily 
> restore them if necessary.  Then I reattached them, and went on with my life.
> 
> Apparently, those snapshots ate up a lot of disk space without me noticing it.
> 
> I raced down to the server room just now, deleted all my snapshots except the 
> ones listed below, which I believe were made when I created new boot 
> environments, and now my available space looks much better again.
> 
> It does not explain, though, why it dropped 11 G on the 24th, and again on 
> the 25th.
> 
> Very odd.
> 
> Please forgive me for bothering you all, but I was kind of panicking there...
> 
> 
> 
> [email protected]:~# df -h
> Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
> rpool/ROOT/OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0706A
>                       134G   3.9G    37G    10%    /
> /devices                 0K     0K     0K     0%    /devices
> /dev                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev
> ctfs                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/contract
> proc                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
> mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
> swap                   7.8G   388K   7.8G     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
> objfs                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/object
> sharefs                  0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/dfs/sharetab
> /usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
>                        41G   3.9G    37G    10%    /lib/libc.so.1
> fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
> swap                   7.8G    16K   7.8G     1%    /tmp
> swap                   7.8G    96K   7.8G     1%    /var/run
> rpool/export           134G    32K    37G     1%    /export
> rpool/export/home      134G    32K    37G     1%    /export/home
> rpool/export/home/myadmin
>                       134G   1.7G    37G     5%    /export/home/myadmin
> rpool                  134G    46K    37G     1%    /rpool
> rpool/zones            134G    37K    37G     1%    /zones
> rpool/zones/archive    134G    34K    37G     1%    /zones/archive
> rpool/zones/mysql      134G    33K    37G     1%    /zones/mysql
> rpool/zones/routerb2   134G    33K    37G     1%    /zones/routerb2
> rpool/zones/tomcat     134G    33K    37G     1%    /zones/tomcat
> rpool/zones/webphp4    134G    33K    37G     1%    /zones/webphp4
> rpool/zones/archive/ROOT/zbe-2
>                       134G    28G    37G    44%    /zones/archive/root
> rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT/zbe-2
>                       134G   827M    37G     3%    /zones/tomcat/root
> rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT/zbe-2
>                       134G   9.2G    37G    20%    /zones/routerb2/root
> rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT/zbe-2
>                       134G   940M    37G     3%    /zones/mysql/root
> rpool/zones/webphp4/ROOT/zbe
>                       134G   3.3G    37G     9%    /zones/webphp4/root
> /export/home/myadmin    39G   1.7G    37G     5%    /home/myadmin
> [email protected]:~# zfs list
> NAME                                      USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> rpool                                    96.7G  37.1G    46K  /rpool
> rpool/ROOT                               4.16G  37.1G    31K  legacy
> rpool/ROOT/OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0705A  10.9M  37.1G  3.87G  / 
> rpool/ROOT/OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0706A  4.14G  37.1G  3.89G  /
> rpool/ROOT/openindiana                   12.0M  37.1G  3.48G  /
> rpool/dump                               8.00G  37.1G  8.00G  -
> rpool/export                             1.68G  37.1G    32K  /export
> rpool/export/home                        1.68G  37.1G    32K  /export/home
> rpool/export/home/myadmin                1.68G  37.1G  1.68G  
> /export/home/myadmin
> rpool/swap                               8.50G  45.5G   136M  -
> rpool/zones                              74.4G  37.1G    37K  /zones
> rpool/zones/archive                      52.5G  37.1G    34K  /zones/archive
> rpool/zones/archive/ROOT                 52.5G  37.1G    32K  legacy
> rpool/zones/archive/ROOT/zbe             3.14M  37.1G  27.9G  legacy
> rpool/zones/archive/ROOT/zbe-1           1.98M  37.1G  28.0G  legacy
> rpool/zones/archive/ROOT/zbe-2           52.4G  37.1G  28.1G  legacy
> rpool/zones/mysql                        1.32G  37.1G    33K  /zones/mysql
> rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT                   1.32G  37.1G    32K  legacy
> rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT/zbe               1.53M  37.1G   814M  legacy
> rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT/zbe-1             1.91M  37.1G   814M  legacy
> rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT/zbe-2             1.32G  37.1G   940M  legacy
> rpool/zones/routerb2                     16.3G  37.1G    33K  /zones/routerb2
> rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT                16.3G  37.1G    32K  legacy
> rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT/zbe            2.98M  37.1G  8.60G  legacy
> rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT/zbe-1          9.06M  37.1G  8.63G  legacy
> rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT/zbe-2          16.3G  37.1G  9.15G  legacy
> rpool/zones/tomcat                       1016M  37.1G    33K  /zones/tomcat
> rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT                  1015M  37.1G    32K  legacy
> rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT/zbe              1.93M  37.1G   827M  legacy
> rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT/zbe-1            2.02M  37.1G   827M  legacy
> rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT/zbe-2            1011M  37.1G   827M  legacy
> rpool/zones/webphp4                      3.31G  37.1G    33K  /zones/webphp4
> rpool/zones/webphp4/ROOT                 3.31G  37.1G    32K  legacy
> rpool/zones/webphp4/ROOT/zbe             3.31G  37.1G  3.31G  legacy
> [email protected]:~# zfs list -t snapshot
> NAME                                                          USED  AVAIL  
> REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> rpool/ROOT/OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0706A@install              60.0M      -  
> 2.78G  -
> rpool/ROOT/OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0706A@2014-07-05-23:13:53   157M      -  
> 3.48G  -
> rpool/ROOT/OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0706A@2014-07-07-04:05:55  34.3M      -  
> 3.87G  -
> rpool/zones/archive/ROOT/zbe-2@2014-07-05-23:13:59           8.08G      -  
> 27.9G  -
> rpool/zones/archive/ROOT/zbe-2@2014-07-07-04:06:00           8.09G      -  
> 28.0G  -
> rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT/zbe-2@2014-07-05-23:13:57              118M      -   
> 814M  -
> rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT/zbe-2@2014-07-07-04:05:58              118M      -   
> 814M  -
> rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT/zbe-2@2014-07-05-23:13:55          2.35G      -  
> 8.60G  -
> rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT/zbe-2@2014-07-07-04:05:57          2.38G      -  
> 8.63G  -
> rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT/zbe-2@2014-07-05-23:14:02            46.0M      -   
> 830M  -
> rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT/zbe-2@2014-07-07-04:06:04            43.7M      -   
> 827M  -
> [email protected]:~# 
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