ZFS: Removing files from snapshots?

Asked Jul 21 '11 at 11:38

Active Jul 22 '11 at 15:37

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Say I have a dataset with 100 snapshots and want to rm -rf all folders named "cache" in all snapshots.

I want to actually free up the space, not just hide it away in layers of snapshots, so making a clone and removing from that and then taking a new snapshot doesn't seem to do what I want.

Any semi-automatical way do that? Some wrapping around zfs list -t snapshot, zfs clone, zfs promote, zfs snapshot?

(cross-posted to ZFS: Removing files from snapshots? as well)

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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asked Jul 21 '11 at 11:38

Tino Didriksen

I see this was moved, so I guess http://serverfault.com/questions/293009 is now primary. – Tino Didriksen Jul 22 '11 at 15:43

ZFS: Removing files from snapshots?

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