From owner-freebsd-jail@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 1 21:09:07 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 2D0DB106566B for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:09:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from romain.garbage@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1EC18FC08 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:09:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxh11 with SMTP id 11so2186509vxh.13 for ; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:09:06 -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:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5Ypif38x3wiBdu6ncn6zwMf1+pgSlaI/hNrOcSoc0kg=; b=PH3CfCBw/yjld0rDexI9pqNjYKz6Zfmr5AroIg72cYqtRZLImxPjOG6oW0QmTbHcq5 iylDOo+ibJIH1iK5QHVBphGZBV00HorzFl8aSLvamg3kf8uWOVxXLDOKMgncLRzHoI02 T9UUJBynuMF0m6DiE2ydNxtrPvfmHcvsAMYmA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.147.202 with SMTP id m10mr84852vcv.162.1314911345853; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:09:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.190.71 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 14:09:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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 23:09:05 +0200 Message-ID: From: Romain Garbage To: Redd Vinylene Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 21:09:07 -0000 2011/9/1 Redd Vinylene : > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Glen Barber wro= te: > >> >> Do you need the data within /jail anymore? =C2=A0I 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 delete= d > that directory a 100 times already. > > Exactly what is my zfs pool though? Got to be extremely careful it does n= ot > also delete my /jails dir - where my life's work currently resides :-) Zfs is a file system but it also contains a volume manager. The pool is kind of the logical volume in which you have your logical filesystems (called datasets in zfs) Could you provide the output of the `zpool status` command? Actually, the command to destroy your pool would be `zpool destroy jail`, as the zfs command applies to datasets. > Thanks for all your help guys. Glad we've finally come to what seems like= a > closure! > > Redd > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-jail@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-jail > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-jail-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >