Solutions Log » snapshots http://solutions.unixsherpa.com by Dan Reiland Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:28:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Remove a Range of Unwanted ZFS Snapshots from the Command Line http://solutions.unixsherpa.com/2009/11/25/remove-a-range-of-unwanted-zfs-snapshots-from-the-command-line/ http://solutions.unixsherpa.com/2009/11/25/remove-a-range-of-unwanted-zfs-snapshots-from-the-command-line/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:51:41 +0000 Dan http://solutions.unixsherpa.com/?p=218 Remove a range of unwanted snapshots, from the command line, if necessary.
In the following example, all automatic snapshots in the bash shell are removed.

for s in $(zfs list -H -o name -t snapshot | grep @zfs-auto-snap); do zfs destroy $s; done

One could add a secondary pipe and grep statement to filter on individual file systems.

Reference: How to Manage the Automatic ZFS Snapshot Service

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