is there way to rename an existing zfs pool?

[Marco van Tol]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 03:32:19PM +0300, Zeus Panchenko wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> may somebody advice, plese?
> 
> is there way to rename an existent zfs pool?
> 
> lets say we have created pool with:
> 
> zpool create -f not-well-thought-out-pool-name /dev/gpt/disk0
> 
> and after some time we'd like to have it named as
> very-well-thought-out-pool-name
> 
> so, is it possible at all?

>From zpool(1M):

       zpool import [-o mntopts] [ -o property=value] ... [-d dir | -c
       cachefile] [-D] [-f] [-R root] pool | id [newpool]

           Imports  a  specific  pool. A pool can be identified by its name or
           the numeric identifier.  If  newpool  is  specified,  the  pool  is
           imported using the name newpool. Otherwise, it is imported with the
           same name as its exported name.

So basically, export and then import with a new name.

Read the entire chapter from the man page to be aware of the side
effects. :-)

Marco

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