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Managing Boot Environments With Oracle Solaris 11 Express Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
1. Introduction to Boot Environments
2. Using beadm Utility (Tasks)
Listing Existing Boot Environments and Snapshots
How to Display Information About Your Boot Environments, Snapshots, and Datasets
How to Create a Boot Environment
How to Create a Boot Environment From an Inactive Boot Environment
Taking a Snapshot of a Boot Environment
How to Create a Snapshot of a Boot Environment
How to Create a Boot Environment From an Existing Snapshot
Changing the Default Boot Environment
How to Activate an Existing Boot Environment
Mounting and Updating an Inactive Boot Environment
How to Mount a Boot Environment
How to Unmount an Existing Boot Environment
Creating Custom Names for Boot Environments
If you want to make more room available on your system, you can use the beadm command to destroy an existing boot environment.
Note the following specifications:
You cannot destroy the boot environment that is currently booted.
The beadm destroy command automatically removes the destroyed boot environment's entry from the x86 GRUB menu or the SPARC boot menu.
The beadm destroy command destroys only the critical or nonshared datasets of the boot environment. Shared datasets are located outside of the boot environment root dataset area and are not affected when a boot environment is destroyed.
See the following example, where BE1 and BE2 share the rpool/export and rpool/export/home datasets. The datasets include the following:
rpool/ROOT/BE1 rpool/ROOT/BE2 rpool/export rpool/export/home
Destroy BE2 by using the following command:
beadm destroy BE2
The shared datasets, rpool/export and rpool/export/home, are not destroyed when the boot environment BE2 is destroyed. The following datasets remain.
rpool/ROOT/BE1 rpool/export rpool/export/home
$ beadm destroy beName
Note - The beadm destroy command asks for confirmation before destroying the boot environment. Add the -F option to the beadm destroy command to force destruction of the boot environment without a confirmation request. Add the -f option to force destruction of the boot environment even if its mounted.