Hi I have recently updated my TrueNAS version to 25.04.2.6 and have never deleted any boot environments. My understanding is that each new version is installed, as a snapshot, on the boot drive so they are all independent. You cannot delete the currently loaded TN version which makes sense. I thi…

Do you still have the ix-application dataset? Or did you delete it after the migration from kubernetes to docker? If you’ve deleted it i’d say anything older then 24.10 can be removed since you’d “loose” your docker apps if you rolled back to a version with the kubernetes backend…

I have never run apps on my TrueNAS. I will do. I waited until that silly VM setup was removed before migrating so my VMs were only ever on libvirt Do you know why I have a record called intial-install and it is 8kb?

[image] shoulders: Do you know why I have a record called intial-install and it is 8kb? No sorry i don’t know, and since i usually only keep the last 2 boot environments of the previous release and the boot environments of the current release i can’t remember if my install also had that initi…

I usually keep all snapshots in the current version, in your case 25.04. When upgrading to the next major release I delete the previous one if couple next upgrades and dot releases haven’t had any problems.

[image] Jatrabari: I delete the previous one if couple next upgrades and dot releases haven’t had any problems. Soooo, it looks like you never delete the previous one…

IMO explaining jokes is not the best idea. So let’s just agree that my sense of humour is far from perfect.

It’s hard to tell with a few users. I caught it was a joke but you might consider adding an emoji or something to help give a hint of a Joke or something. I guessed you were joking about upgrades and releases without problems.

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garyez_28558 January 21, 2026, 12:39am 10

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