Boot-pool getting filled by older versions

Hello there fellow TrueNASers,

I updated to the latest version of EE (25.04.2.6) a few days ago. After the reboot, I noticed a notification telling that boot-pool was getting overcrowded (“Space usage for pool ‘boot-pool’ is 90%”). I just ran zfs list: it looks like all previous versions are still there, eating space (cf. below output). Question is, I suppose: do I need to manage this, or would it get somehow automagically managed? If I should manage this, what should I do? I sure don’t want to blow up the system, do I?

Here is the output:

$ sudo zfs list | grep boot-pool
boot-pool                                   14.1G   957M    96K  none
boot-pool/ROOT                              14.1G   957M    96K  none
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1                    2.74G   957M   165M  legacy
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1/audit              14.7M   957M  14.7M  /audit
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1/conf               6.82M   957M  6.82M  /conf
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1/data                304K   957M   304K  /data
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1/etc                7.50M   957M  6.50M  /etc
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1/home                160K   957M   160K  /home
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1/mnt                 112K   957M   112K  /mnt
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1/opt                  96K   957M    96K  /opt
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1/root                540K   957M   540K  /root
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1/usr                2.40G   957M  2.40G  /usr
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1/var                 151M   957M  31.4M  /var
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1/var/ca-certificates  96K   957M    96K  /var/local/ca-certificates
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1/var/log             119M   957M   118M  /var/log
boot-pool/ROOT/24.10.2.1/var/log/journal     832K   957M   832K  /var/log/journal
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0                      2.81G   957M   174M  legacy
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/audit                14.3M   957M  14.3M  /audit
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/conf                 6.97M   957M  6.97M  /conf
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/data                  284K   957M   284K  /data
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/etc                  7.12M   957M  6.19M  /etc
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/home                  152K   957M   152K  /home
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/mnt                   112K   957M   112K  /mnt
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/opt                    96K   957M    96K  /opt
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/root                  480K   957M   480K  /root
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/usr                  2.51G   957M  2.51G  /usr
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/var                  97.6M   957M     6M  /var
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/var/ca-certificates    96K   957M    96K  /var/local/ca-certificates
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/var/lib              28.9M   957M  28.6M  /var/lib
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/var/lib/incus         104K   957M   104K  /var/lib/incus
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/var/log              61.7M   957M  11.5M  /var/log
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.0/var/log/journal      50.2M   957M  50.2M  /var/log/journal
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1                      2.80G   957M   174M  legacy
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/audit                 208K   957M  15.0M  /audit
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/conf                 7.06M   957M  7.06M  /conf
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/data                  100K   957M   280K  /data
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/etc                  7.13M   957M  6.21M  /etc
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/home                    0B   957M   152K  /home
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/mnt                   104K   957M   104K  /mnt
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/opt                    96K   957M    96K  /opt
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/root                    8K   957M   480K  /root
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/usr                  2.53G   957M  2.53G  /usr
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/var                  86.8M   957M  6.22M  /var
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/var/ca-certificates    96K   957M    96K  /var/local/ca-certificates
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/var/lib              29.5M   957M  29.0M  /var/lib
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/var/lib/incus          96K   957M    96K  /var/lib/incus
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/var/log              50.2M   957M  12.2M  /var/log
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.1/var/log/journal      49.9M   957M  49.9M  /var/log/journal
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2                      2.84G   957M   176M  legacy
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6                    2.87G   957M   176M  legacy
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/audit              45.2M   957M  16.2M  /audit
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/conf               7.15M   957M  7.15M  /conf
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/data                760K   957M   284K  /data
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/etc                7.66M   957M  6.59M  /etc
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/home               1.91M   957M  1.73M  /home
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/mnt                 112K   957M   112K  /mnt
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/opt                  96K   957M    96K  /opt
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/root                740K   957M   496K  /root
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/usr                2.56G   957M  2.56G  /usr
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/var                70.1M   957M  4.69M  /var
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/var/ca-certificates  96K   957M    96K  /var/local/ca-certificates
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/var/lib              28M   957M  27.7M  /var/lib
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/var/lib/incus        96K   957M    96K  /var/lib/incus
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/var/log            36.6M   957M  15.6M  /var/log
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2.6/var/log/journal    8.39M   957M  8.39M  /var/log/journal
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/audit                 216K   957M  14.6M  /audit
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/conf                 7.16M   957M  7.16M  /conf
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/data                  116K   957M   276K  /data
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/etc                  7.68M   957M  6.57M  /etc
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/home                    0B   957M   152K  /home
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/mnt                   112K   957M   112K  /mnt
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/opt                    96K   957M    96K  /opt
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/root                    8K   957M   484K  /root
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/usr                  2.56G   957M  2.56G  /usr
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/var                  89.7M   957M  6.48M  /var
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/var/ca-certificates    96K   957M    96K  /var/local/ca-certificates
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/var/lib              31.4M   957M  30.9M  /var/lib
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/var/lib/incus          96K   957M    96K  /var/lib/incus
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/var/log              50.9M   957M  15.2M  /var/log
boot-pool/ROOT/25.04.2/var/log/journal      50.6M   957M  50.6M  /var/log/journal
boot-pool/grub                              8.22M   957M  8.22M  legacy
$ 

Thanks a lot for your insights!

Delete whatever old boot environments you aren’t going to need any more. Go to System → Boot in the web UI to manage them.

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Errr… I managed to find during the few seconds between my shameful post and your patient answer. Thanks for pointing the answer though!

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