Re: Deleting the top-level ZFS file system (without affecting its children)

2013-01-12 Thread Derek Kulinski
Hello xenophon+freebsd, Saturday, January 12, 2013, 12:47:25 PM, you wrote: >> Why would rm -rf /oldroot/* not return all the allocated space? >> I can only think of snapshots keeping the space allocated, but >> you can remove those too. Can you elaborate on that? > This will free space in the f

RE: Deleting the top-level ZFS file system (without affecting its children)

2013-01-12 Thread xenophon\+freebsd
> Why would rm -rf /oldroot/* not return all the allocated space? > I can only think of snapshots keeping the space allocated, but > you can remove those too. Can you elaborate on that? Ronald, This will free space in the file system (as shown by df), but it won't return the space to the pool. I

Re: Deleting the top-level ZFS file system (without affecting its children)

2013-01-11 Thread Ronald Klop
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:11:32 +0100, xenophon\+freebsd wrote: When I originally set up ZFS on my server, I used the topmost file system for the root file system. Last night, I used "zfs send" and "zfs recv" to create a new root file system named "zroot/root". Then, I adjusted the mount point