[indiana-discuss] beadm destroy snapshots failing maybe wrong syntax

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Tue Mar 3 09:17:02 PST 2009


On a recent update to 208, I'm trying to understand creation and
destruction of snapshots.

I attempted to create a few trying to get the syntax right and ended
up with this:

root # beadm list -a
BE/Dataset/Snapshot                             Active Mountpoint Space   Policy Created          
-------------------                             ------ ---------- -----   ------ -------          
opensolaris
   rpool/ROOT/opensolaris                       -      -          315.61M static 2009-03-01 12:33 
opensolaris-1
   rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1                     NR     /          4.65G   static 2009-03-01 22:58 
   rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1 at 030309_103134       -      -          31.0K   static 2009-03-03 10:31 
   rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1 at 2009-03-02-04:58:16 -      -          168.70M static 2009-03-01 22:58 
   rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1 at install             -      -          127.11M static 2009-03-01 12:55 
   rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1 at now                 -      -          30.0K   static 2009-03-03 10:23 
   rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1 at w_emacs_smbs_smbskr -      -          31.0K   static 2009-03-03 10:33 

First, as you can see, everthing on Mar 3 shows 30 or 31 K.  That
cannot be right for a snapshot (can it?)
What should I expect in a snapshot size wise?

Further, trying to destroy them fails:

  root # beadm destroy rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1 at w_emacs_smbs_smbskr
  The BE name provided is invalid.
  Please check it and try again.

My attempt looks like others I've seen searching google. But maybe it
wants a plainer BE name.

  root # beadm destroy opensolaris-1 at w_emacs_smbs_smbskr
  The BE name provided is invalid.
  Please check it and try again.

Nope that wasn't it either.

So is my syntax just wrong or is something going wrong here?




More information about the indiana-discuss mailing list