To display information about snapshots, BEs, and datasets, use the beadm list command. The command also displays BEs that are created by the pkg command.
To view information for a specific BE, specify its name. By default all BEs are listed without additional information.
The following options are available:
–a – Lists all available information about the BE. This information includes subordinate datasets and snapshots.
–d – Lists information about all subordinate datasets that belong to the BE.
–s – Lists information about the snapshots of the BE.
–H – Lists information in machine-parsable format. Each field in the output is separated by a semicolon.
–o attributes – Lists only the attributes that you specify.
–Z and –z – lists all the zone BEs that are associated with a specific global zone BE (–Z), or lists all the BEs that are associated with a specific zone (–z).
The –a option shows full information for one or all BEs, including all dataset and snapshot information. This information includes flags to indicate whether the boot environment is active or not, the mountpoint for the dataset, the amount of space used by the dataset, the policy and the date the dataset was created.
The values for the Flags column are as follows:
R – Active on reboot
N – Active now
NR – Active now and active on reboot
O – Orphaned non-global zone BE, only visible inside a non-global zone
- – Inactive
! – Unbootable BEs in a non-global zone
The following example displays full information for BE5.
$ beadm list -a BE5
BE Name Flags Mountpoint Space Policy Created
------- ----- ---------- ------ ------ ----------------
BE5 - - 80.76M static 2016-12-19 16:28
Details:
--------
Zpool.......... rpool
UUID........... 67cda37d-c1a2-4ccf-9415-06ed96b79244
FMRI........... be://rpool/BE5
Root Dataset... rpool/ROOT/BE5
In-BE Datasets Mountpoint Space Created
------------------ ---------- ------ ----------------
rpool/ROOT/BE5 - 80.76M 2016-12-19 16:28
rpool/ROOT/BE5/var - 85.00K 2016-12-19 16:28
Snapshots Space Created
--------------------- ------ ----------------
be://rpool/BE2@backup 67.00K 2016-12-19 16:32
For more information about orphaned BEs see About Orphaned Zone Boot Environments and Clones in Creating and Using Oracle Solaris Zones.
The –H option suppresses header titles and displays results separated by semicolons. The following example shows information for all BEs.
$ beadm list -H BE2;4659d6ee-76a0-c90f-e2e9-a3fcb570ccd5;;;55296;static;1211397974 BE3;ff748564-096c-449a-87e4-8679221d37b5;;;339968;static;1219771706 BE4;1efe3365-02c5-6064-82f5-a530148b3734;;;16541696;static;1220664051 BE5;215b8387-4968-627c-d2d0-f4a011414bab;NR;/;7786206208;static;1221004384
Each field in the output is separated by a semicolon. The output fields display as follows.
BE name
UUID
Flags
Mountpoint
Space; size in bytes
Policy
Creation time (in seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, Jan 1, 1970)
In this example, the universally unique identifier (UUID) for the BE is provided in the second field. The UUID for BE5 is 215b8387-4968-627c-d2d0-f4a011414bab. For a BE in a non-global zone, the UUID field represents the parent ID with which that BE is associated.
The –s option displays information about existing snapshots including the time these were created.
$ beadm list -s BE2
BE Name Flags Mountpoint Space Policy Created
------- ----- ---------- ------ ------ ----------------
BE2 - - 80.83M static 2016-12-19 16:28
Snapshots Space Created
---------------------- ------ ----------------
be://rpool/BE2@backup 67.00K 2016-12-19 16:32
be://rpool/BE2@backup2 1.00K 2016-12-19 16:57
Instead of displaying a predefined list of BE information, you can filter specific attributes or properties to be displayed by using the –o in combination with a list of properties.
Filtering is helpful especially in a system with a big number of zones. In a system with multiple zone configurations, listing the BEs would take a long time to process depending on the number of zones on the system. Or, the command would generate information beyond what you need or want. The –o option enables you to directly retrieve only the information you need in a shorter time.
In the following example, the command displays only the information about the name, date and time created, and the root dataset of all BEs:
$ beadm list -o name,created,root_dataset BE Name Created Root Dataset -------------- ---------------- -------------- BE1 2015-10-16 10:45 rpool/ROOT/BE1 BE2 2015-10-19 07:04 rpool/ROOT/BE2 BE3 2015-10-20 05:59 rpool/ROOT/BE3 solaris 2015-10-16 08:34 rpool/ROOT/solaris
The following example lists only the BE name, subordinate file systems, and creation date for all BEs that match the BeFmri pattern in the command.
$ beadm list -o name,datasets,created be://rpool/BE*
BE Name Datasets Created
-------------- ---------------- ----------------
BE1 rpool/ROOT/BE1 2015-10-16 10:45
rpool/ROOT/BE1/var
rpool/ROOT/BE1/my_fs
BE2 rpool/ROOT/BE2 2015-10-19 07:04
rpool/ROOT/BE2/var
BE3 rpool/ROOT/BE3 2015-10-20 05:59
rpool/ROOT/BE3/var
Use the –Z to view information about zone BEs that are associated with a specific global zone. This option is available only from the global zone.
global$ beadm list -Z BE2
BE Name Flags Mountpoint Space Policy Created
------- ----- ---------- ----- ------ ----------------
BE2 NR / 4.37G static 2015-10-19 07:04
Non-global Zone BE Names Flags Mountpoint Space
------------------------- ----- ------------------------ -------
zbe://zone1/solaris N /system/zones/zone1/root 1.04M
zbe://zone1/zbe2 - - 2.00K
zbe://zone1/zbe1 R - 17.10M
zbe://zone2/solaris NR /system/zones/zone2/root 803.80M
zbe://zone4/solaris NR /system/zones/zone4/root 803.87M
zbe://zone3/solaris NR /system/zones/zone3/root 803.84M
Use the –z to view information about a zone's BEs. This option is also available only from the global zone.
global$ beadm list -z zone1 Non-global Zone BE Names Parent BE Flags Mountpoint Space ------------------------- -------------- ----- ------------------------ ------- zbe://zone1/BE10 - RO - 705.10M zbe://zone1/BE3 be://rpool/BE3 R - 803.73M zbe://zone1/solaris be://rpool/BE2 N /system/zones/zone1/root 1.04M zbe://zone1/zbe1 be://rpool/BE2 R - 17.10M zbe://zone1/zbe2 be://rpool/BE2 - - 2.00K