The guide is good, but didn't tell me anything I didn't already know about this 
area unfortunately.

Anyway, I freed up a big chunk of space by first deleting the snapshot which 
was reported by zfs list as being the largest (2GB). Doing zfs list after this 
deletion revealed that several of the numbers had changed - all of a sudden a 
snapshot that was a couple of hundred MB turned into 5GB, so I deleted that as 
well.

So there must be basically lots of references to data that hide themselves from 
the surface and can't really be found using zfs list. Is there another tool 
that helps to visualize disk space usage and references to data, or could one 
potentially be made? E.g. I regained my disk space by trial and error, but if 
there had been some kind of visual tool that made it easy to see that "if I 
delete that snapshot, then that one, I will get 7GB back", that would have been 
really handy.

Thanks,
Matt
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