Displaying space reclaimed from deleted Snapshot copies

About reclaimed space

You can display the amount of space you can reclaim by deleting one or more Snapshot copies in a volume. The amount of space displayed is an approximation because writing to the volume, creating Snapshot copies, or deleting Snapshot copies cause the reclaimed amount to change.

Displaying amount of reclaimed space

To display the amount of space you can reclaim by deleting Snapshot copies, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	Enter the following command: *snap reclaimable vol_name* snap1 [snap2 ...]** vol_name is the volume which contains the Snapshot copies you might delete. snap1 [snap2 ...] are the names of Snapshot copies you might delete. The names are separated by a space. Note It might take a while for Data ONTAP to display the amount of freed space. You can press Ctrl-C to interrupt the command.

Step

Action

Enter the following command:

snap reclaimable vol_name snap1 [snap2 ...]

vol_name is the volume which contains the Snapshot copies you might delete.

snap1 [snap2 ...] are the names of Snapshot copies you might delete. The names are separated by a space.

Note
It might take a while for Data ONTAP to display the amount of freed space. You can press Ctrl-C to interrupt the command.

Example

The following command displays the amount of space reclaimed by deleting the hourly.4, hourly.5, and nightly.0 Snapshot copies in the vol1 volume:

system> snap reclaimable vol1 hourly.4 hourly.5 nightly.0

Processing (Press Ctrl-C to exit) ...

snap reclaimable: Approximately 240 kbytes would be freed.