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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Snapshot size

Issue

Significant discrepancy in snapshot size between vol show and df -h:

 
::*> snapshot show vol0
                                                                 ---Blocks---
Vserver  Volume   Snapshot                                  Size Total% Used%
-------- -------- ------------------------------------- -------- ------ -----
vserver-01 vol0
                  nightly.1                              16.82MB     0%    0%
                  hourly.5                                9.79MB     0%    0%
                  hourly.3                               10.50MB     0%    0%
                  hourly.2                               10.23MB     0%    0%
                  nightly.0                              18.42MB     0%    0%
                  hourly.1                               10.66MB     0%    0%
                  hourly.0                                3.86MB     0%    0%

 

::*> vol show vol0 -fields size-used-by-snapshots
vserver         volume size-used-by-snapshots
--------------- ------ ----------------------
vserver-01       vol0  6.71GB

DF output:

::*> df -h vol0
Filesystem               total       used      avail capacity  Mounted on                 Vserver
/vol/vol0/              1905GB       62GB     1842GB       3%  ---                        vserver-01
/vol/vol0/.snapshot      100GB     6871MB       93GB       7%  ---                        vserver-01

 

 

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