Windows 10 Storage Spaces pool does not reclaim free space from deleted files

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I have 8x6TB disks in a storage pool with several thin-provisioned dual-parity volumes on it. One of them is currently occupying 30+ TB on the pool, but only about 10TB of data are actually on the volume:


PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> get-storagepool -FriendlyName "Storage pool" | Get-Volume | select-object size,sizeremaining | fl
size : 17592050753536
sizeremaining : 11069258166272

size : 17592118935552
sizeremaining : 15741980147712

size : 38373183979520
sizeremaining : 26477607419904
Accounting for resiliency, the total occupied space across all volumes should be 24.5TB. However, the pool reports itself as being totally full:



PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> get-storagepool -FriendlyName "Storage pool" | select-object AllocatedSize,Size | fl
AllocatedSize : 47977469050880
Size : 48004966907904

I'm missing 19TB of space!


I tried the below command multiple times, to no avail:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> optimize-volume r -retrim -SlabConsolidate -verbose

Post Defragmentation Report:
VERBOSE:
Volume Information:
VERBOSE: Volume size = 34.89 TB
VERBOSE: Cluster size = 4 KB
VERBOSE: Used space = 10.81 TB
VERBOSE: Free space = 24.08 TB
VERBOSE:
Allocation Units:
VERBOSE: Slab count = 35736
VERBOSE: Slab size = 1 GB
VERBOSE: Slab alignment = 895.00 MB
VERBOSE: In-use slabs = 12486
VERBOSE:
Slab Consolidation:
VERBOSE: Space efficiency = 88%
VERBOSE: Potential purgable slabs = 1
VERBOSE: Slabs pinned unmovable = 0
VERBOSE: Successfully purged slabs = 0
VERBOSE: Recovered space = 0 bytes
VERBOSE:
Retrim:
VERBOSE: Backed allocations = 21514
VERBOSE: Allocations trimmed = 9854
VERBOSE: Total space trimmed = 9.62 TB
I've had a nightmarish two weeks following the 1903 update, with all sorts of storage and filesystem issues that almost cost me all my data (not out of the woods yet, but getting there I hope.) If I can't sort this out, I'll have no choice but pass on Storage Spaces and go back to my previous storage solution. Please help, I've scoured the Internet and I'm pretty sure the answer isn't a click away. Thank you so much!

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