Disk Utility visualises some children at the parent level

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Disk Utility visualises some children at the parent level

Post by grahamperrin » Wed Sep 26, 2012 2:58 am

Example:

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sh-3.2$ zfs list
NAME                                       USED   AVAIL   REFER  MOUNTPOINT
flakylaciebde                             457Gi  29.3Mi   415Gi  /Volumes/flakylaciebde
gjp22                                     381Gi   182Gi   302Gi  /Volumes/gjp22
tall                                     1.73Ti  66.5Gi   440Gi  /Volumes/tall
tall/backups                              849Gi  66.5Gi  10.9Gi  /Volumes/tall/backups
tall/backups/LaCie d2 Extreme            1.92Mi  66.5Gi   696Ki  /Volumes/tall/backups/LaCie d2 Extreme
tall/backups/LaCie d2 Extreme/11G         644Ki  66.5Gi   644Ki  /Volumes/tall/backups/LaCie d2 Extreme/11G
tall/backups/LaCie d2 Extreme/12A         628Ki  66.5Gi   628Ki  /Volumes/tall/backups/LaCie d2 Extreme/12A
tall/backups/blocky                      3.31Gi  66.5Gi  3.31Gi  /Volumes/tall/backups/blocky
tall/backups/gjp22                        376Gi  66.5Gi   301Gi  /Volumes/tall/backups/gjp22
tall/backups/zhandy                       458Gi  66.5Gi   398Gi  /Volumes/tall/backups/zhandy
tall/backups/zhandy/Pocket Time Machine  52.8Gi  66.5Gi  52.8Gi  /Volumes/tall/backups/zhandy/Pocket Time Machine
zhandy                                    537Gi  45.6Gi   411Gi  /Volumes/zhandy
zhandy/Pocket Time Machine               50.2Gi  45.6Gi  50.2Gi  /Volumes/zhandy/Pocket Time Machine
sh-3.2$


2012-09-26 08-48-51 Disk Utility view of parent and child file systems.png
2012-09-26 08-48-51 Disk Utility view of parent and child file systems.png (173.2 KiB) Viewed 31 times


In that example, the main issues with visualisation within the tree are:

  • tall equal to its child backups
  • zhandy equal to its child Pocket Time Machine.

Environment

Disk Utility 13 (430) in Build 12C54 of OS X 10.8.2

Notes

As the System Information view of storage excludes parents, I doubt that this problem is at the Disk Utility level.

Whatever the root cause:

  • for ZEVO Community Edition 1.1, command line approaches such as diskutil are encouraged.

(The reference to comfortable use of Disk Utility in Resurrection: Mac/ZFS returns! | ZDNet (2012-09-12) might have been a typo, or a misinterpretation of the word diskutil.)
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