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PowerScale OneFS 9.3.0.0 CLI Administration Guide

Assess deduplication space savings

You can assess the amount of disk space you will save by deduplicating a directory.

  1. Specify which directory to assess by running the isi dedupe settings modify command.
    The following command configures SmartDedupe to assess deduplication savings for /ifs/data/archive:
    isi dedupe settings modify --assess-paths /ifs/data/archive

    If you assess multiple directories, disk savings will not be differentiated by directory in the deduplication report.

  2. Start the assessment job by running the following command:
    isi job jobs start DedupeAssessment
  3. Identify the ID of the assessment report by running the following command:
    isi dedupe reports list
  4. View prospective space savings by running the isi dedupe reports view command:
    The following command displays the prospective savings recorded in a deduplication report with an ID of 46:
    isi dedupe reports view 46

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