Dataset showing too low an "available" amount

Hi there,

I’m having a layer 8 problem that I just can’t figure out. Let me know if this is not the right part of the forum to ask!

I have a single SSD that is for a dataset. I have this data backed up elsewhere and the data is just movies, so I’m not concerned if the drive fails and I lose all data. Here is the info from the storage space:

It shows the usable capacite as 3.51TB. However when I look at the datasets page it only shows 2.02 TB available:

I’ve clicked “expand” but it does not seem to help in this case. This seems like I have misconfigured something, but I can’t figure it out.

Does anyone have any insights of why it can be? I’ve been scouring the forums and generally it seems that people are having issues with the raid they’ve chosen. In my case, surely it’s not applicable as I have only one drive?

Here’s the output of zpool status

Sorry about the missing images above, I’m new and can’t post images. The post is pretty clear without them, the disk shows 3.5TB space but only 2.02TB are available in the dataset is the main thing I wanted to show.

Here is the output of zpool status

errors: No known data errors

  pool: SSD
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0B in 00:47:08 with 0 errors on Sun May 24 00:47:09 2026
config:

        NAME                                    STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        SSD                                     ONLINE       0     0     0
          aeea8f71-2e56-4254-a7a8-c4cf750a01a8  ONLINE       0     0     0

with more info:

{
  "output_version": {
    "command": "zpool status",
    "vers_major": 0,
    "vers_minor": 1
  },
  "pools": {
    "SSD": {
      "name": "SSD",
      "state": "ONLINE",
      "pool_guid": "11123894357344799630",
      "txg": "1650912",
      "spa_version": "5000",
      "zpl_version": "5",
      "scan_stats": {
        "function": "SCRUB",
        "state": "FINISHED",
        "start_time": "Sun May 24 00:00:01 PDT 2026",
        "end_time": "Sun May 24 00:47:09 PDT 2026",
        "to_examine": "1.23T",
        "examined": "1.23T",
        "skipped": "8.70M",
        "processed": "0B",
        "errors": "0",
        "bytes_per_scan": "0B",
        "pass_start": "1781640943",
        "scrub_pause": "-",
        "scrub_spent_paused": "0",
        "issued_bytes_per_scan": "0B",
        "issued": "1.23T"
      },
      "vdevs": {
        "SSD": {
          "name": "SSD",
          "vdev_type": "root",
          "guid": "11123894357344799630",
          "class": "normal",
          "state": "ONLINE",
          "alloc_space": "1.50T",
          "total_space": "3.62T",
          "def_space": "3.62T",
          "read_errors": "0",
          "write_errors": "0",
          "checksum_errors": "0",
          "vdevs": {
            "aeea8f71-2e56-4254-a7a8-c4cf750a01a8": {
              "name": "aeea8f71-2e56-4254-a7a8-c4cf750a01a8",
              "vdev_type": "disk",
              "guid": "17822921433360169900",
              "path": "/dev/disk/by-partuuid/aeea8f71-2e56-4254-a7a8-c4cf750a01a8",
              "class": "normal",
              "state": "ONLINE",
              "alloc_space": "1.50T",
              "total_space": "3.62T",
              "def_space": "3.62T",
              "rep_dev_size": "3.63T",
              "phys_space": "3.64T",
              "read_errors": "0",
              "write_errors": "0",
              "checksum_errors": "0",
              "slow_ios": "0",
              "vendor": "ATA",
              "model": "Samsung SSD 870 QVO 4TB",
              "size": "3.6T"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "error_count": "0"
    }
  }
}

And here’s the ZFS stuff:

zfs get all SSD         
NAME  PROPERTY                VALUE                   SOURCE
SSD   type                    filesystem              -
SSD   creation                Thu Mar 12 15:54 2026   -
SSD   used                    1.50T                   -
SSD   available               2.02T                   -
SSD   referenced              104K                    -
SSD   compressratio           1.00x                   -
SSD   mounted                 yes                     -
SSD   quota                   none                    default
SSD   reservation             none                    default
SSD   recordsize              128K                    default
SSD   mountpoint              /mnt/SSD                default
SSD   sharenfs                off                     default
SSD   checksum                on                      default
SSD   compression             lz4                     local
SSD   atime                   off                     local
SSD   devices                 on                      default
SSD   exec                    on                      default
SSD   setuid                  on                      default
SSD   readonly                off                     default
SSD   zoned                   off                     default
SSD   snapdir                 hidden                  default
SSD   aclmode                 discard                 local
SSD   aclinherit              discard                 local
SSD   createtxg               1                       -
SSD   canmount                on                      default
SSD   xattr                   on                      local
SSD   copies                  1                       default
SSD   version                 5                       -
SSD   utf8only                off                     -
SSD   normalization           none                    -
SSD   casesensitivity         sensitive               -
SSD   vscan                   off                     default
SSD   nbmand                  off                     default
SSD   sharesmb                off                     default
SSD   refquota                none                    default
SSD   refreservation          none                    default
SSD   guid                    11637701176162572888    -
SSD   primarycache            all                     default
SSD   secondarycache          all                     default
SSD   usedbysnapshots         0B                      -
SSD   usedbydataset           104K                    -
SSD   usedbychildren          1.50T                   -
SSD   usedbyrefreservation    0B                      -
SSD   logbias                 latency                 default
SSD   objsetid                54                      -
SSD   dedup                   off                     default
SSD   mlslabel                none                    default
SSD   sync                    standard                default
SSD   dnodesize               legacy                  default
SSD   refcompressratio        1.00x                   -
SSD   written                 104K                    -
SSD   logicalused             1.51T                   -
SSD   logicalreferenced       46K                     -
SSD   volmode                 default                 default
SSD   filesystem_limit        none                    default
SSD   snapshot_limit          none                    default
SSD   filesystem_count        none                    default
SSD   snapshot_count          none                    default
SSD   snapdev                 hidden                  default
SSD   acltype                 posix                   local
SSD   context                 none                    default
SSD   fscontext               none                    default
SSD   defcontext              none                    default
SSD   rootcontext             none                    default
SSD   relatime                on                      default
SSD   redundant_metadata      all                     default
SSD   overlay                 on                      default
SSD   encryption              off                     default
SSD   keylocation             none                    default
SSD   keyformat               none                    default
SSD   pbkdf2iters             0                       default
SSD   special_small_blocks    0                       default
SSD   prefetch                all                     default
SSD   direct                  standard                default
SSD   longname                off                     default
SSD   defaultuserquota        0                       -
SSD   defaultgroupquota       0                       -
SSD   defaultprojectquota     0                       -
SSD   defaultuserobjquota     0                       -
SSD   defaultgroupobjquota    0                       -
SSD   defaultprojectobjquota  0                       -

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Hi @SmallBarky thanks for your reply! I’ve read the post you’ve linked, and now I’m more confused than ever! :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ve put some more information in the post above, and it has the ZFS command output in there. I have 0 snapshots on this dataset (I do have snapshots on other data sets). I think all the info should be in there, let me know if anything else is missing!

Actually, there are some snapshots from ix-volumes, but they seem pretty small?

zfs list -rt all SSD | grep '@'
SSD/ix-apps@ix-apps-backup-system-update--2026-05-23_03:47:08                               64K      -   148K  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_configs@ix-apps-backup-system-update--2026-05-23_03:47:08                  224K      -  3.21M  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_mounts@ix-apps-backup-system-update--2026-05-23_03:47:08                    64K      -    96K  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_mounts/jellyfin@1.3.3                                                        0B      -   104K  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_mounts/jellyfin@1.3.9                                                        0B      -   104K  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_mounts/jellyfin@ix-apps-backup-system-update--2026-05-23_03:47:08            0B      -   104K  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_mounts/jellyfin@1.3.10                                                       0B      -   104K  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_mounts/jellyfin/cache@1.3.3                                               13.6M      -  56.0M  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_mounts/jellyfin/cache@1.3.9                                                496K      -  55.8M  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_mounts/jellyfin/cache@ix-apps-backup-system-update--2026-05-23_03:47:08    368K      -  61.6M  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_mounts/jellyfin/cache@1.3.10                                               468K      -  65.9M  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_mounts/jellyfin/config@1.3.3                                              21.8M      -  1.46G  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_mounts/jellyfin/config@1.3.9                                              20.1M      -  1.49G  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_mounts/jellyfin/config@ix-apps-backup-system-update--2026-05-23_03:47:08  20.3M      -  1.49G  -
SSD/ix-apps/app_mounts/jellyfin/config@1.3.10                                             22.3M      -  1.53G  -

Here’s a summary:

zpool list SSD
NAME   SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  CKPOINT  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP    HEALTH  ALTROOT
SSD   3.62T  1.50T  2.13T        -         -     4%    41%  1.00x    ONLINE  /mnt
truenas_admin@truenas[~]$ zfs list SSD
NAME   USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
SSD   1.50T  2.02T   104K  /mnt/SSD

Is the problem you don’t understand where the 1.5T is used? Your numbers match up on total size, allocated (used) and free. I am guessing you have data stored by Jellyfin that is about 1.5T

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OMG! I thought there were 2 available in total, but there are 2 available remaining :person_facepalming:

Thank you, so I can put 2TB more of files in there? I thought it was saying that there were only 0.5TB left (2TB - 1.5TB).

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Yes, ZFS terminology can be different, (okay, sometimes both strange AND annoying).

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Thank you all for giving me the solution! I couldn’t work it out!! But now I can finally rest :slight_smile:

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