Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 07:52:09 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Subject: Re: Resetting zfs snapshots Message-ID: <20180223075209.5dd437a91cd3429b3604de0d@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <a4990c9f32d613211008307e23ecbc47.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <a4990c9f32d613211008307e23ecbc47.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:29:58 -0500 "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > I am in the process of setting up a new FreeBSD server which involves > transferring a large amount of data onto. The system was installed > with root zfs and snapshots were initialised immediately. > > Several iterations of test data transfer and deletes has now resulted > in snapshots exceeding 64 Gb. I wish to effectively restart/rebase > snapshots following the final transfer and eliminate all previous > ones. I use this to delete all snapshots when I want to clean them up. zfs list -H -o name -t snapshot | xargs -n1 zfs destroy -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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