$ zfs list -o space,refratio -rtall filling/.../debian-kfreebsd NAME AVAIL USED USEDSNAP USEDDS REFRATIO filling/.../debian-kfreebsd 10.6T 487M 106M 381M 2.27x filling/.../debian-kfreebsd@orig-install-buster-sid - 106M - - 2.36x filling/.../debian-kfreebsd@upgraded-sid-20230705 - 0B - - 2.27x The debian-kfreebsd@orig-install-buster-sid image was obtained with qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm debian-kfreebsd -cdrom debian-unofficial-kfreebsd-amd64-NETINST-1.iso -smp 6 -m 2g (the installation ISO is https://people.debian.org/~jrtc27/debian-unofficial-kfreebsd-amd64-NETINST-1.iso) debian-kfreebsd@upgraded-sid-20230705 is upgraded directly from the last archive snapshot that had kfreebsd-amd64: http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20230705T142129Z/ Login nab:hehe. debian-kfreebsd@orig-install-buster-sid and debian-kfreebsd@upgraded-sid-20230705 are ZFS sends (latter is incremental over the former). debian-kfreebsd.zst is a compressed image of debian-kfreebsd@upgraded-sid-20230705 (it's 40G, you want to pipe through dd conv=sparse bs=64k).