On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Dormition Skete (Hotmail) < [email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jul 30, 2014, at 8:20 PM, Timothy Coalson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> And does anything else stand out to any of you? > >> > >> I see these: > > > > NAME AVAIL USED USEDSNAP USEDDS > > USEDREFRESERV USEDCHILD > > ... > > rpool/zones/archive/ROOT/zbe-2 37.1G 52.4G 24.3G 28.1G > > 0 0 > > ... > > rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT/zbe-2 37.1G 16.3G 7.16G 9.16G > > 0 0 > > > > These are our two email zones. Our Dovecot server is in routerb2 because > I couldn’t get mail to work unless it had a direct public IP address. So > the zone’s name does not really reflect that. All of our other zones go > through that routerb2 zone to get their internet access. The “archive” > zone is our email archives for the past 17 years. > > We have a LOT of email. Especially when you consider there’s only four of > us here. They stand out because USEDSNAP is almost as much as USEDDS, suggesting a fair amount of dead weight to free up. > > >> > >> > >>> I see "10M", not "10G", so I'm going to say no, it won't free that much > >>> space. > >> > >> > > > > I hadn't looked at that, but I think most of it is unrelated to the boot > > environment (only the first line is obviously a snapshot on the boot > > environment). A shot in the dark here- is "2014-07-05-23:13:59" the > format > > of the snapshot names your backup script uses? If so, and that date/time > > matches up with a backup you did, you probably made those snapshots > > yourself. > > > > I read someplace — I think on Oracle’s website — that when you create a > boot environment, it creates a snapshot of the various zones, labeling them > zbe-1, zbe-2, etc. for each new BE. > Interesting. The names zbe-1, zbe-2 are filesystems - but they are probably clones, and after a little reading on zfs clone, clones must be made from snapshots, and make that snapshot impossible to destroy as long as a clone exists. You may have been on the right track all along, and I was leading you astray - but I can't say for sure, someone else that has experience with zones should chime in. > I have deleted BE’s in the past, though not on a production server, > without any problems. > > Having had four out of five servers, and a telephone system, all have > hardware failures of one sort or another this past month, and every time I > turned around, I was just breaking things worse... let’s just say I’m a > little worn out by all of this. (Actually, all five servers have given me > grief.) All I’ve done this month is wrestle with these machines... > > So again, thank you very, very much for all of your help. I really > appreciate it a lot. > > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
