[OpenIndiana-discuss] Disk Space Disappearing.

Dormition Skete (Hotmail) dormitionskete at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 31 01:22:29 UTC 2014


On Jul 30, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Timothy Coalson <tsc5yc at mst.edu> wrote:

> 
> No, it refers to how many total bytes are referenced by the filesystem -
> this includes all the bytes that are also in snapshots.  So, if you make a
> filesystem, put a 20GB file in it, and snapshot it, both snapshot and
> filesystem will say 20G for referenced.
> 
> Something that may be useful here is "zfs list -o space" - this actually
> outputs several different kinds of "space used" measures, and one column to
> pay attention to is the "USEDSNAP" column - this should help you find
> filesystems that have a lot of data that exists only in snapshots.  I have
> a pair of scripts that are useful for determining which snapshots are
> eating this space, maybe I should host them somewhere.  However, in your
> case, it is probably all the snapshots, so not as useful.
> 
> 

Thank you, Mr. Coalson.  I appreciate it very much, although, unfortunately, I’m still not sure what you mean by the amount of bytes referenced by the file system.  But in executing your "zfs list -o space” command, if what they label as “USED” is what is actually on the disk, that is very helpful, and something I can understand.  

Like I’ve said before on this list, I’m not very good at system admin work.  I wish I could find someone we could hire to do all this stuff for us.  That’d be real nice.

Is there any way to tell why the swap is so high?  This machine has loads of RAM.  Or is that normal for Solaris?

And does anything else stand out to any of you?



@tryphon.ds:~# zfs list -o space
NAME                                     AVAIL   USED  USEDSNAP  USEDDS  USEDREFRESERV  USEDCHILD
rpool                                    37.1G  96.8G         0     46K              0      96.8G
rpool/ROOT                               37.1G  4.16G         0     31K              0      4.16G
rpool/ROOT/OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0705A  37.1G  10.9M         0   10.9M              0          0
rpool/ROOT/OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0706A  37.1G  4.14G      263M   3.89G              0          0
rpool/ROOT/openindiana                   37.1G  12.0M         0   12.0M              0          0
rpool/dump                               37.1G  8.00G         0   8.00G              0          0
rpool/export                             37.1G  1.68G         0     32K              0      1.68G
rpool/export/home                        37.1G  1.68G         0     32K              0      1.68G
rpool/export/home/                37.1G  1.68G         0   1.68G              0          0
rpool/swap                               45.5G  8.50G         0    136M          8.37G          0
rpool/zones                              37.1G  74.4G         0     37K              0      74.4G
rpool/zones/archive                      37.1G  52.5G         0     34K              0      52.5G
rpool/zones/archive/ROOT                 37.1G  52.5G         0     32K              0      52.5G
rpool/zones/archive/ROOT/zbe             37.1G  3.14M         0   3.14M              0          0
rpool/zones/archive/ROOT/zbe-1           37.1G  1.98M         0   1.98M              0          0
rpool/zones/archive/ROOT/zbe-2           37.1G  52.4G     24.3G   28.1G              0          0
rpool/zones/mysql                        37.1G  1.32G         0     33K              0      1.32G
rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT                   37.1G  1.32G         0     32K              0      1.32G
rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT/zbe               37.1G  1.53M         0   1.53M              0          0
rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT/zbe-1             37.1G  1.91M         0   1.91M              0          0
rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT/zbe-2             37.1G  1.32G      408M    940M              0          0
rpool/zones/routerb2                     37.1G  16.3G         0     33K              0      16.3G
rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT                37.1G  16.3G         0     32K              0      16.3G
rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT/zbe            37.1G  2.98M         0   2.98M              0          0
rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT/zbe-1          37.1G  9.06M         0   9.06M              0          0
rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT/zbe-2          37.1G  16.3G     7.16G   9.16G              0          0
rpool/zones/tomcat                       37.1G  1016M         0     33K              0      1015M
rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT                  37.1G  1015M         0     32K              0      1015M
rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT/zbe              37.1G  1.93M         0   1.93M              0          0
rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT/zbe-1            37.1G  2.02M         0   2.02M              0          0
rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT/zbe-2            37.1G  1011M      184M    827M              0          0
rpool/zones/webphp4                      37.1G  3.31G         0     33K              0      3.31G
rpool/zones/webphp4/ROOT                 37.1G  3.31G         0     32K              0      3.31G
rpool/zones/webphp4/ROOT/zbe             37.1G  3.31G         0   3.31G              0          0
@tryphon.ds:~#




> I see "10M", not "10G", so I'm going to say no, it won't free that much
> space.


I was saying 10 G because if you look at the output for “zfs list -t snapshot”, it seems like if we add up the snapshots  that have "@2014-07-05”, we would get something like this:

rpool/ROOT/OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0706A at 2014-07-05-23:13:53   157M      -  3.48G  -
rpool/zones/archive/ROOT/zbe-2 at 2014-07-05-23:13:59           8.08G      -  27.9G  -
rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT/zbe-2 at 2014-07-05-23:13:57              118M      -   814M  -
rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT/zbe-2 at 2014-07-05-23:13:55          2.35G      -  8.60G  -
rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT/zbe-2 at 2014-07-05-23:14:02            46.0M      -   830M  -
 
That would add up to 10 G.  So, given that, would destroying that boot environment free up 10G?

And MOST IMPORTANTLY, could I SAFELY do that with the “beadm destroy -s OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0705A” command?


My “beadm list" is here:

@tryphon.ds:~# beadm list
BE                           Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created
OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0705A -      -          10.9M static 2014-07-05 17:13
OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0706A NR     /          4.39G static 2014-07-06 22:05
openindiana                  -      -          12.0M static 2014-07-04 17:39
@tryphon.ds:~# 


My complete "zfs list -t snapshot” is here:

@tryphon.ds:~# zfs list -t snapshot
NAME                                                          USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
rpool/ROOT/OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0706A at install              60.0M      -  2.78G  -
rpool/ROOT/OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0706A at 2014-07-05-23:13:53   157M      -  3.48G  -
rpool/ROOT/OpenIndiana-151a7-2014-0706A at 2014-07-07-04:05:55  34.3M      -  3.87G  -
rpool/zones/archive/ROOT/zbe-2 at 2014-07-05-23:13:59           8.08G      -  27.9G  -
rpool/zones/archive/ROOT/zbe-2 at 2014-07-07-04:06:00           8.09G      -  28.0G  -
rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT/zbe-2 at 2014-07-05-23:13:57              118M      -   814M  -
rpool/zones/mysql/ROOT/zbe-2 at 2014-07-07-04:05:58              118M      -   814M  -
rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT/zbe-2 at 2014-07-05-23:13:55          2.35G      -  8.60G  -
rpool/zones/routerb2/ROOT/zbe-2 at 2014-07-07-04:05:57          2.38G      -  8.63G  -
rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT/zbe-2 at 2014-07-05-23:14:02            46.0M      -   830M  -
rpool/zones/tomcat/ROOT/zbe-2 at 2014-07-07-04:06:04            43.7M      -   827M  -
@tryphon.ds:~# 


I hope these columns of data show up nice for you all.  They look fine here...




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