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Commands for displaying space usage information in ONTAP

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You use the storage aggregate and volume commands to see how space is being used in your local tiers and volumes and their snapshots.

Note Prior to ONTAP 9.7, System Manager uses the term aggregate to describe a local tier. Regardless of your ONTAP version, the ONTAP CLI uses the term aggregate. To learn more about local tiers, see Disks and local tiers.

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Local tier, including details about used and available space percentages, snapshot reserve size, and other space usage information

storage aggregate show
storage aggregate show-space -fields snap-size-total,used-including-snapshot-reserve

How disks and RAID groups are used in an local tier, and RAID status

storage aggregate show-status

The amount of disk space that would be reclaimed if you deleted a specific snapshot

volume snapshot compute-reclaimable

The amount of space used by a volume

volume show -fields size,used,available,percent-used
volume show-space

The amount of space used by a volume in the containing local tier

volume show-footprint
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