Unable to delete pool

[showcasefloyd]

At some point I was trying to create a secondary pool using two drives in a Raid 0 configuration. After a short while I found that one of the drives was over heating and figured I no longer needed the pool any more anyway and so I deleted the pool (called pool2-striped) from my server and removed the drives.

Okay here's where it gets weird. When I reboot the server the pool was still there, and no matter what I do I can't not seem to remove it.
I've even tried deleting the pool using the command

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zpool destroy tank

, which works until I reboot the system again and then I see the same error message:

NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
pool1-raidz 3.62T 1.20T 2.42T 33% 1.00x ONLINE -
pool2-stripe - - - - - FAULTED -

Any advice would be appreciated and thanks in advance

[kenZ71]

If absolutely positive you don't need the data you can try to format the disk.

As a word of paranoid caution unplug all other drives to avoid formatting the wrong drive.

Also you could try running bad blocks to overwrite everything.

[showcasefloyd]

Thanks KenZ71,

I actually already unplugged the drives. Do I need to plug them back in to remove the pool?

[slaycock]

Are you actually typing

zpool destroy tank

instead of

zpool destroy pool2-striped

Just a thought

Also, if you destroyed the pool from the command line you will need to resynchronise your zfs configuration so that the gui can udate itself.

[showcasefloyd]

Thanks slaycock.

Yeah I was typing in the correct command line. But I appreciate the input. It doesn't seem like you can delete a pool if the hard drives that the pool resides on is not hooked up any more.