Old jail dir reappears after reboot - why?

[Redd Vinylene]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Do you need the data within /jail anymore?  I sent another followup on
> how to set the 'mounted' property to 'no'.
>
> In either case, the following will unmount the dataset:
>
> zfs umount pool/dataset
>
> Or if you're absolutely certain you will not need the data within that
> dataset, you could do:
>
> zfs destroy pool/dataset
>
> Of course, replace 'pool' with the zfs pool, and 'dataset' with the name
> of the dataset you wish to remove (in this case, 'jail').
>
> zfs(1M) has all (most) of the available commands available.
>
>
Sounds great man! No, I do not need the data in /jail. I must have deleted
that directory a 100 times already.

Exactly what is my zfs pool though? Got to be extremely careful it does not
also delete my /jails dir - where my life's work currently resides :-)

Thanks for all your help guys. Glad we've finally come to what seems like a
closure!

Redd