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Expand rpool Partition in Proxmox

My main Proxmox hard drive was filling up recently... NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH rpool 451G 396G 55G - - 32% 89% 1.00x ONLINE but I realized the partition was only half the size of the disk!  (Proxmox was originally installed on a smaller

ZFS Finding Datasets with the most snapshots

Following up on Removing old ZFS snapshots, I had way too many snapshots... These commands will find all snapshots within the pool tank and count them by dataset.

Removing old ZFS snapshots

I back up multiple computers to my Truenas instance hourly, but these snapshots hang around without an easy way to prune them (computers I back up include Ubuntu [http://www.devstderr.com/ubuntu-syncoid/] and Proxmox [https://www.devstderr.com/backup-proxmox-syncoid/]). But over a couple years one of my datasets seemed

Ubuntu ZFS bpool size

Preventing bpool space issues with Ubuntu running on ZFS.

Backup with Ubuntu (on ZFS) + sanoid/syncoid on a schedule

Managing Ubuntu backups with Sanoid/Syncoid is simple and can be automated in a crontab!

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