ZFS Snapshots: The case of the vanishing disk usage

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I have a home server that runs on TrueNAS (which is FreeBSD) using ZFS for its storage filesystem. I recently ran into the common issue of not knowing where my disk usage was going, discovered that disk usage accounting for snapshots is more complex than for regular filesystems, and thought I’d write it up. Hopefully others find it helpful and/or enlightening.

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