My main pool was getting close to the 80% limit for good performance.
It contains a lot of media files and is exported to windows machines and android over SMB.
I found several terabytes of uninteresting media files and deleted all of those, using WizTree from a windows client.
And Wiztree thinks 2-3 TiB have been freed up, as seen from windows.
However, looking at this pool in the TrueNAS Core WebUI, the columns Used and Available hasn’t changed???
What must I do to get the freed up space actually be made available???
As others have said, snapshots are the most likely cause of this, and they’ll automatically be cleared up as they expire. The other reasonably-likely cause is that ZFS takes a bit of time to actually free the space when you delete files (the bigger, the longer). So if you were checking the web UI immediately after the deletion, you might not have seen the effect of the deletion yet. Wait a while and it should show up, if snapshots aren’t in play.
Greetings all, I’m having a similar issue, I deleted many GBs worth of data via a Windows app from a SMB share but the pool/dataset does not seem to reflect the deletion. I do not have snapshots (total snapshots is 0). Thoughts? Thanks. Tim
The version number told me that. Looks like you are a basic user and should be able to post screenshots, etc. Can you explain more on what you tried and maybe provide pictures. I use Snipping tool to capture, trim and post pics on windows 10
Usually, the snapshots is the thing and you said no snapshots
Thanks @SmallBarky, I followed your suggestion and was boosted up a trust level.
I’m using a windows tool call MSP360 that performs a backup to various destinations, including a SMB share from TrueNAS. Been doing it for years. The pool that the share is on is full (99.8%) and I obviously need to make room, so I am deleting old backups, etc. I see them being removed from the share location via Windows File Explorer and also from the mount point when I use Linux commands on the TrueNAS box itself. But the GUI stays at 99.8%
That is really full. Can you run the following and post it back using Preformatted text (</>) on toolbar above where you reply. Two separate commands below.
And just to verify you have no snapshots on this system at all? If the dataset has a parent with snapshots and it is requested Recursive, it contains the child dataset also.
Certainly, here it is (and I haven’t upgraded to the new features because I didn’t want to risk it at 99.8%):
zpool status -v
pool: raid
state: ONLINE
status: Some supported and requested features are not enabled on the pool.
The pool can still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support
the features. See zpool-features(7) for details.
scan: scrub repaired 0B in 01:57:45 with 0 errors on Fri Nov 29 17:00:31 2024
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
raid ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
cd806127-b2ac-483a-90ac-aefbc251f66f ONLINE 0 0 0
06088190-d4f0-4922-8317-042d30b1af8d ONLINE 0 0 0
e8575c87-86fa-4159-a995-2907339900fb ONLINE 0 0 0
cache
beca6ca8-09ff-4c65-9de0-680bcc6c0736 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
sudo zpool list
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
boot-pool 220G 34.6G 185G - - 4% 15% 1.00x ONLINE -
raid 2.72T 2.63T 88.8G - - 2% 96% 1.00x ONLINE /mnt
scratch 2.72T 94.5G 2.63T - - 0% 3% 1.00x ONLINE /mnt
tb4 3.62T 935G 2.71T - - 0% 25% 1.00x ONLINE /mnt
Let me know what else I can do to help. Thanks again.
Your zpool list shows the RAID pool at 96%. How much data did you delete and did you clear your Recycle Bin? I don’t know if you have that feature turned on in SMB.
I don’t really know how much data I deleted, but around 200 GB is a reasonable guess. I do not have recycle bin enabled for this share (well, at least Export Recycle Bin is not checked).
@winnielinnie (I can’t get the preformatted text thingy to work)
