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How to clean-up old ZFS pool

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How to clean-up old ZFS pool

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Hi everyone,

I am still experimenting with ZFS and it seems I can not delete an old pool information from my NAS4FREE installation.
Can you please publish a link or procedure - how to DEFINITIVELY wipe out a zpool and virtual device.

Is there a way to initialize the whole ZFS system?

I am totally not impressed - neither with the reliability, nor the speed of ZFS. In so many years with Nas4Free I have used hardware RAID,
I never had problems with my data. Now with ZFS - I can not understand what am I doing wrong, but it seems to me that
the whole zfs subsystem is VERY UNSTABLE.

I would not risk my data using it!

Thank you in advance for your time and help!
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Re: How to clean-up old ZFS pool

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there are help slides for zfs beginners

see

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?th ... oobs.7775/
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Re: How to clean-up old ZFS pool

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also to delete a pool that is not there because you have done it in a completly different way

use
zpool export <pool name>
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