Yah, the paranoid part of my reptilian brain tells me not to issue a destroy command on a resource I want to keep.
That said, it should be fine. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 30, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > Tim Aslat <t...@spyderweb.com.au> writes: > >> Simplest option would be something like >> >> zfs list -t snapshot -o name -H -r filesystem/path > /tmp/snaplist.txt >> >> edit /tmp/snaplist.txt to remove the snapshot you want to keep >> >> for SNAP in `cat /tmp/snaplist.txt` >> do >> zfs destroy $SNAP >> done >> >> My syntax may be a little off with the for loop but I'm sure you get the >> idea. >> >> Cheers > > Thanks for the input... I did think of something like that employing > a four loop but it seemed a bit cumbersome > > So I thought I'd check once more thru the oracle stuff online about > snapshots and damned if I didn't stumble up on something that seems to > be one way to go, honestly its not a whole lot less (if any) less > cumbersome though. > > http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/6n7ht6r4f/index.html > (Look under Holding ZFS Snapshots) > > > It revolves around the `hold' command which is really more of a > property I guess. > > You pick out the snap[s] you want (in my case it was just one) and > label it with: `zfs hold LABEL zp/path/dir@SNAP' > > Then you maybe use the -r flag with destroy or a four loop like I did: > > I didn't have any complicated snaps behind clones or what not. > > cd .../.zfs/snspshot > > for SNAP in `ls -d *`;do zfs destroy zp/path/dir@${SNAP};done > > When it hits the one with the `hold NAME' it reports that fact then > finishes off the rest. > > You can then `release' the `hold' with: zfs release zp/path/dir@SNAP > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
