Where physically is .ix-apps

Apps and Virtualization
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I’m sure this has been asked before, but I looked around and couldn’t find an answer.

My NAS has a 500 GB SSD for apps storage. The whole disk is a single “Apps” dataset, located at /mnt/Apps. The Kubernetes apps i used prior to Dragonfish were stored at /mnt/Apps/ix-applications.

With Dragonfish, i know that /mnt/Apps/ix-applications is depreciated, and that our new Docker apps are stored in a hidden dataset at /mnt/.ix-apps. Physically though, is that dataset still stored on that 500 GB drive i have at /mnt/Apps? Or is it somewhere else?

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It’s stored on whatever pool you’ve specified for your apps.

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okay, and i do have the “Apps” pool i created on the 500 gb SSD specified as the storage pool for apps, so it’s on there.

thank you

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Mount points and location/path of datasets are completely independent.

Do a

zfs list | grep ix-apps

and you shall see the light.

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Another way to view/navigate it, a way I found very helpful for myself is is “mc”, make sure you use “sudo mc” , i encountered permission issues otherwise.

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But that shows only the file system view, i.e. the mount point, not which pool and dataset that mount is actually referring to.

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Ahh ive only the one pool and couldn’t fingure out how to find the ix apps, the mc tool helpsled me with that and I was able to copy somw stuff across to a separate drive