From owner-freebsd-jail@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 1 19:54:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: jail@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB52A106566B; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 19:54:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reddvinylene@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CC7A8FC16; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 19:54:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk9 with SMTP id 9so1538590qyk.13 for ; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:54:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Req52nruFutsWvP7JcCCyE04dlSA+BvMEHfaghu1pR8=; b=qD5jSI7tjHpySwL1cNd8ncCoYsAPEh2QnRueqbWY0GHgnh5y9Q0rjIgQM7iAzR1ojG zGc07iJNJb9PQjbhaonPt/FeDaxT96X53utN0DHDSHEl7plbbXnAlgbILAmogBJ56Vns WC/PMXZ5YgAnFS1gmydusbrx7XKNYSC/xG2XA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.62.194 with SMTP id y2mr223433qch.4.1314906882657; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:54:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.38.132 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:54:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E5FE244.20700@gmail.com> References: <4E53A532.7080801@FreeBSD.org> <4E5FB953.5020001@FreeBSD.org> <4E5FCFA7.8090003@FreeBSD.org> <4E5FE052.1070905@gmail.com> <4E5FE244.20700@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:54:42 +0200 Message-ID: From: Redd Vinylene To: Glen Barber Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: jail@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old jail dir reappears after reboot - why? X-BeenThere: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion about FreeBSD jail\(8\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:54:43 -0000 On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > > Do you need the data within /jail anymore? I sent another followup on > how to set the 'mounted' property to 'no'. > > In either case, the following will unmount the dataset: > > zfs umount pool/dataset > > Or if you're absolutely certain you will not need the data within that > dataset, you could do: > > zfs destroy pool/dataset > > Of course, replace 'pool' with the zfs pool, and 'dataset' with the name > of the dataset you wish to remove (in this case, 'jail'). > > zfs(1M) has all (most) of the available commands available. > > Sounds great man! No, I do not need the data in /jail. I must have deleted that directory a 100 times already. Exactly what is my zfs pool though? Got to be extremely careful it does not also delete my /jails dir - where my life's work currently resides :-) Thanks for all your help guys. Glad we've finally come to what seems like a closure! Redd