Gian, What version of CloudStack are you running? I recall (quite a long time ago), there was a bug where volumes and snapshots weren't getting cleaned up correctly. If I recall correctly, that was somewhere around 4.2. - Si ________________________________________ From: Gian Paolo Buono Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 6:10 AM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [Where are the snapshot file] Thank you it's correct :) , but now I have another question.. From console of CloudStack I have deleted a snapshot, on the database the status is changed in Destroyed but the file it's stil on secondary storage: ls -ltr d8736bdb-22c6-46fe-a27e-0ee5dc99a867.vhd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1271296512 Mar 11 04:02 d8736bdb-22c6-46fe-a27e-0ee5dc99a867.vhd Also in snapshots view sometimes the status is allocated...but what does it mean ? Best Regards On 03/15/2016 11:15 AM, Stavros Konstantaras wrote: Hi Gian, If you run the following query in MySQL and check the column “install_path” you will find the location of snapshot file in secondary storage: