Please if anyone can help with this mess, I'd appreciate it. ~# beadm list
BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created -- ------ ---------- ----- ------ ------- b100 - - 6.88G static 2008-10-30 13:59 b101a - - 960.95M static 2008-11-09 08:46 b101b - - 6.15G static 2008-11-14 09:17 b103 - - 13.44M static 2008-11-25 12:09 b103pre NR / 10.86G static 2008-12-07 11:25 b99 - - 16777216.01T static 2008-10-01 14:35 ~# zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool 81.4G 145G 62K /rpool rpool/ROOT 33.3G 145G 18K /rpool/ROOT rpool/ROOT/b100 6.54G 145G 14.4G / rpool/ROOT/b100/opt 0 145G 3.60M /opt rpool/ROOT/b101a 622M 145G 14.3G / rpool/ROOT/b101a/opt 151M 145G 2.76G /opt rpool/ROOT/b101b 3.22G 145G 14.9G / rpool/ROOT/b101b/opt 2.92G 145G 2.06G /opt rpool/ROOT/b103 13.3M 145G 21.4G / rpool/ROOT/b103pre 10.5G 145G 21.6G / rpool/ROOT/b99 12.4G 145G 10.2G / rpool/ROOT/b99/opt 0 145G 3.60M /opt rpool/export 48.1G 145G 3.22G /export rpool/export/home 44.8G 145G 38.6G /export/home ~# zfs destroy rpool/ROOT/b99 cannot destroy 'rpool/ROOT/b99': filesystem has children use '-r' to destroy the following datasets: rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/b99/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/b99/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-10-31-11:02 rpool/ROOT/b99/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-10-31-11:02 rpool/ROOT/b99/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-01-12:34 (...abridged...)rpool/ROOT/b99/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-12-07-12:02 rpool/ROOT/b99/opt rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-10-31-11:02 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-10-31-11:02 (...abridged...) rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-12-07-12:02 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:hourly-2008-12-07-12:02 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-12-07-12:02 ~# zfs destroy -r rpool/ROOT/b99 cannot destroy 'rpool/ROOT/b99': filesystem has dependent clones use '-R' to destroy the following datasets: rpool/ROOT/b100/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-09-11:13 rpool/ROOT/b100/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-11-11:10 rpool/ROOT/b100/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-12-00:00 rpool/ROOT/b100/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-11-15-00:00 r(...abridged...) rpool/ROOT/b100/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:hourly-2008-12-07-12:02 rpool/ROOT/b100/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-12-07-12:02 rpool/ROOT/b100/opt rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-10-31-11:02 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-01-12:34 (...abridged...)rpool/ROOT/b101a/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:hourly-2008-12-07-12:02 rpool/ROOT/b101a/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-12-07-12:02 rpool/ROOT/b101a/opt rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-11-15-00:00 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-18-09:32 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-19-00:00 (...abridged...) rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:hourly-2008-12-07-12:02 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-12-07-12:02 rpool/ROOT/b101a rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-11-15-00:00 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-18-09:32 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-19-00:00 (...abridged...) rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:hourly-2008-11-25-07:00 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:hourly-2008-11-25-08:00 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:hourly-2008-11-25-09:00 rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-10-31-11:02 rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-01-12:34 (...abridged...) rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-08-00:00 rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-11-08-00:00 rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-09-11:13 rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-11-11:10 rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-12-00:00 rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-11-15-00:00 rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-18-09:32 (...abridged...) rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:hourly-2008-11-25-09:00 rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-12-07-12:02 rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:hourly-2008-12-07-12:02 (...abridged...) rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:frequent-2008-12-07-14:15 rpool/ROOT/b101b/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:hourly-2008-12-07-15:00 rpool/ROOT/b101b/opt rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-12-07-12:02 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:hourly-2008-12-07-12:02 (...abridged...) rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:frequent-2008-12-07-14:15 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:hourly-2008-12-07-15:00 rpool/ROOT/b101b rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-12-07-12:02 (...abridged...) rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:hourly-2008-12-07-17:00 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-12-08-00:00 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-12-08-00:00 rpool/ROOT/b103 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-12-07-12:02 (...abridged...) rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-12-08-00:00 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:weekly-2008-12-08-00:00 rpool/ROOT/b103pre rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-09-11:13 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-11-11:10 rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-11-12-00:00 (...abridged...) rpool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:daily-2008-12-07-12:02 rpool/ROOT/b100 So, it appears that any and all BE's are children of BE b99. Attempting to destroy b99 leaves it mounted on a tmp mountpoint.: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# beadm destroy b99 Are you sure you want to destroy b99? This action cannot be undone(y/[n]): y Unable to destroy b99. Mount failed. ~# beadm list -a (...abridged...) rpool/ROOT/b99 - /tmp/.be.fFayjf 12.44G static 2008-10-01 14:35 Can be mount and unmounted but not destroyed using beadm . When mounting beadm gives message: Unable to mount b99. Mount failed. But, it actually is mounted on the specified mountpoint. At the same time, grub no longer will put up the menu.lst and now has some very funky video (vertical lines) at the first Opensolaris version text. install_grub or it 's variant update_grub have not worked. I don't have the time to reinstall and am worried about losing any data by mistake. I have some customer data on this machine at the moment, need to not disrupt the software installs for a few days and am not experienced at trying to zfs send to a file or another disk (none formatted for solaris atm) Thanks, sgk. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss