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.It Sy expandsize
Amount of uninitialized space within the pool or device that can be used to
increase the total capacity of the pool.
-Uninitialized space consists of any space on an EFI labeled vdev which has not
-been brought online
-.Po e.g, using
-.Nm zpool Cm online Fl e
-.Pc .
-This space occurs when a LUN is dynamically expanded.
+On whole-disk vdevs, this is the space beyond the end of the GPT –
+typically occurring when a LUN is dynamically expanded
+or a disk replaced with a larger one.
+On partition vdevs, this is the space appended to the partition after it was
+added to the pool – most likely by resizing it in-place.
+The space can be claimed for the pool by bringing it online with
+.Sy autoexpand=on
+or using
+.Nm zpool Cm online Fl e .
.It Sy fragmentation
The amount of fragmentation in the pool. As the amount of space
.Sy allocated