Michael McKnight wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have what I think is a simple question, but the answer is eluding me... > > I have a ZFS filesystem in which I needed to move part of it to a new > pool. I want to recover the space from the part I moved so that it > returns to the original pool, without losing the snapshot data of the > other parts of the filesystem. > > For example, I have... > > pool_01/mydata/dir1 > and within dir1, I have: > ./images > ./invoices > ./xrays > > The xrays dir was moved to a new pool and now I want to recover the > space that it once took up. > > The problem is that I cant seem to figure out how to recover just the > space that one directory took up. I know how to destroy the snapshots, > but I need to keep them since they contain data from other directories, etc.
It sounds like you have a clone of xrays as some other filesystem, if so promote that clone so it now owns the snapshots then you can delete the xrays filesystem. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
