Re: [osol-discuss] Too much zfs snapshot taking up space after update

2008-06-27 Thread Mark R. Bowyer
Hi all, I had such high hopes that this would solve my problem. But it doesn't, and I think it's telling me that my rpool is just too small to continue. I've managed to promote opensolaris-5/opt, and destroyed all the...-4/[EMAIL PROTECTED] pools, but: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# zfs list NAME

Re: [osol-discuss] Too much zfs snapshot taking up space after update

2008-06-25 Thread Jan Friedel
Hi, little bit off-topic: you can sometimes get into situation, where your ABE is clone of some formerly used BE. To be able to destroy the BE from which your currently booted BE (ABE) was snapshotted/cloned use `zfs promote ABE`. /j.

[osol-discuss] Too much zfs snapshot taking up space after update

2008-06-24 Thread wilson
After image-update from SNV_89SNV_90SNV_91, quite a few zfs snapshots had been automatically created, taking up space in my HD. NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool

Re: [osol-discuss] Too much zfs snapshot taking up space after update

2008-06-24 Thread wilson
Welllost more than 1G of HD space after 2 system update _! I tried destroy one of them ...but cannot destroy 'rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-06-24-14:42:33': snapshot has dependent clones use '-R' to destroy the following datasets: rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1/opt rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1

Re: [osol-discuss] Too much zfs snapshot taking up space after update

2008-06-24 Thread wilson
I tried destroy one of them ...but cannot destroy 'rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-:2008-06-24-14:42:33': snapshot has dependent clones use '-R' to destroy the following datasets: rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1/opt rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1 Just want to know if it'd be safe to destroy the dependent

Re: [osol-discuss] Too much zfs snapshot taking up space after update

2008-06-24 Thread Aubrey Li
#beadm list will tell you which BE is active, if the current one works properly, it's safe to destroy another one. (beadm destroy) After remove BE, you can use zfs destroy -r to remove the snapshot which you don't want. Thanks, -Aubrey On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:17 AM, wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Too much zfs snapshot taking up space after update

2008-06-24 Thread wilson
Thanks a lot , Aubrey Just followed your advice and i managed to re-claim my once-lost 1G HD space by destroying the Opensolaris-1's snapshot. As a bonus, my GRUB now looks neater and cleaner as well :-) --Just list out the steps i've taken # Beadm list BEActive Active on