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> Why would rm -rf /oldroot/* not return all the allocated space?
> I can only think of snapshots keeping the space allocated, but
> you can remove those too. Can you elaborate on that?

Ronald,

This will free space in the file system (as shown by df), but it won't
return the space to the pool.  It looks like ZFS won't let you shrink
file systems yet.

Best wishes,
Matthew

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