Identifying Orphaned Boot Environments With the beadm Command

Orphaned boot environments are indicated in beadm list output by an O flag in the Active column. In the following example output, the solaris-0, solaris-1, and solaris-2 boot environments are orphaned.

$ beadm list
    BE        Active Mountpoint Space   Policy Created
    --        ------ ---------- -----   ------ -------
    solaris-0 !RO    -          3.40M   static 2014-01-17 15:04
    solaris-1 !RO    -          3.85M   static 2014-02-09 18:11
    solaris-2 !RO    -          39.0K   static 2014-02-10 04:54
    solaris-3 !R     -          2.19G   static 2014-02-12 16:56
    solaris-4 !R     -          3.0K    static 2014-02-19 19:18
    solaris-5 NR     /          2.43G   static 2014-03-20 04:38

Boot environments that are shown as orphaned can be destroyed with the beadm destroy command. To destroy all orphaned boot environments, include the ‐O option.

For more information about boot environments, see Creating and Administering Oracle Solaris 11.4 Boot Environments and the beadm(8) man page.