Aggregate space not reducing after deleting volumes. The volume count hasn't gone down either.

[pennywise]

The volumes are gone but the volume count on the aggregate hasn't changed and the aggr size hasn't changed either.

Do I need to wait for wafl to reclaim that space? I deleted 15TB of data but the aggr utilization hasn't changed.

[jcolonfzenpr · Accepted solution]

The volumes are in the recovery queue:

https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Storage_Software/ONTAP_OS/How_to_use_the_Volume_Recovery_Queue

https://whyistheinternetbroken.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/cdot-volume-recovery/

to see it:

set -priv diag

volume recovery-queue show -vserver <vserver name>

to delete it:

volume recovery-queue purge -vserver <vserver_name> -volume <volume name>

to delete all volume in recovery queue:

volume recovery-queue purge-all -vserver <vserver_name>

[pennywise]

That's it! Thanks for the reply Jcolon...!

[paul_stejskal]

https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Storage_Software/ONTAP_OS/Free_Aggregate_space_is_not_returning_after_deleting_Volumes <-I created a KB for this issue to aid anyone else.