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Cannot delete ZFS snapshot

jacob — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:14:09 +0000

While Deleting to delete a snapshot, i typed:

zpool destroy zfsdiskpool@Sat

and got:

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

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

zfs destroy zfsdiskpool@Sat

ZFS Cant rm: No space left on device

jacob — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:52:42 +0000

If you completely fill up a zfs pool, it wont let you delete files on it. What you CAN do, is pick a scapegoat file to wipe out or remove a snapshot. Then you will be able to use the rm command. what I did:


# df -h
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
themirror       39G     39G      0B   100%    /home/jacob/themirror
# rm 3gfile
rm: 3gfile: No space left on device
# dd if=/dev/null of=3gfile
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.000046 secs (0 bytes/sec)
# rm 3gfile