Re: help with full zfs "partitions" - can't delete files

On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 4:29 PM William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem:
>
> FreeBSD 13.3 amd64 system, with
> a zfs pool built from two physical drives.
> The zfs pool has 7 "partitions" (is that what they're called?)
>
> I was copying files over from another machine and didn't realize that
> I filled one of the partitions.
>
> I can't proceed now with this one full partition.
> Every single command fails due to "out of space".
>
> That includes:
> rm (one file or many)
> dd if=/dev/zero of=(some file)
> truncate (somefile)
> zfs destroy poolname/partitionname
> cannot destroy 'poolname/partitionname': out of space
>
> There are no snapshots, I never created any.
>
> Extensive googling has not shown any more than bug reports acknowledging
> that this is a problem.
>
> How do I fix this, short of burning the machine to the ground and starting
> over?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Dudley
>
> This email is free of malware because I run Linux.
>

They are called datasets.

The dataset *may* have gone readonly.

zfs get all poolname/dataset

Posting the output of the above may help us.

~Paul
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