On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Brent Jones <br...@servuhome.net> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Ed Plese <e...@edplese.com> wrote: >> You can reclaim this space with the SDelete utility from Microsoft. >> With the -c option it will zero any free space on the volume. For >> example: >> >> C:\>sdelete -c C: >> >> I've tested this with xVM and with compression enabled for the zvol, >> but it worked very well. >> >> >> Ed Plese >> >> > > It seems the compression setting on the zvol is key here. Tried > without compression turned on, and the thin provisioned file grew to > its maximum size. > I'm re-running it on the same volume, this time with compression > turned on to see how it behaves next :) > > > > -- > Brent Jones > br...@servuhome.net >
Turning compression on was the key. Reclaimed about 5TB of space running sdelete (though it takes a very long time) -- Brent Jones br...@servuhome.net _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
