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Unable to delete clone snapshots and the snapshots are filling volume space in clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1

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Applies to

  • Clustered Data ONTAP
  • ONTAP 9
  • FlexClone

Issue

Snapshot utilization is high and growing in the parent volume:
/vol/Vol_parent/  149422080  105390932   44031148      71% /vol/Vol_parent/
/vol/Vol_parent/.snapshot    7864320    7198312     666008      92% /vol/Vol_parent/.snapshot

volume clone show confirms that active FlexClone relationships are cloned off of the parent volume.

 

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