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Doing a dry run of zfs destroy, and seeing what will be destroyed and how much space will be reclaimed
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$ zfs destroy -nv system/usr/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would destroy system/usr/jails/[email protected]
would reclaim 392G
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Seems that would save you a lot of space.

Also, looks like you have some garble in the command:

should just be:
$ zfs destroy -rvn system/usr/[email protected]

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Fixed the garble.

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