clear old pools remains from active vdevs

[Alan Somers]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 8:37 AM, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:

> 26.04.2018 14:50, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>
> > You can try to use zdb -l to find the stale labels.
> > And then zpool labelclear to clear them.
>
> Our "zpool labelclear" implementation destroys everything (literally).
> Have you really tried it?
>
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"zpool labelclear" won't help in this case, because you have literally no
devices with active labels.  The problem is that the pool is still in your
/boot/zfs/zpool.cache file.  I think that plain "zpool destroy esx" will
work in this case.