Cannot delete ZFS snapshot

While Deleting to delete a , i typed:

zpool destroy zfsdiskpool@Sat

and got:

cannot open 'zfsdiskpool@Sat':  '@' in pool name

This is because to delete snapshots in , you should use ‘ destroy’ instead of ‘zpool destroy’. DOH!

zfs destroy zfsdiskpool@Sat
  1. Thanks. I was getting the error and was about to jump into IRC for it but decided to give google a try and found your post.

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