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How to calculate the non-guaranteed volume for thin provisioning space on df

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Data ONTAP 7-mode
  • Thin provisioned volumes (guarantee = none)

Description

This article describes how thin provisioned (guarantee=none) volume space is used, and why the command output of df, df -A and aggr show_space differs.

Note: These calculation results can vary due to active I/O transfers.

 

 

 

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