SOLVED How to move dataset

[Fred974]

Hi,

I have 2 top level datasets as follow:
minio_storage
|- srv-minio1
|- srv-minio2
|- srv-minio4
|- srv-minio5
production_backup

I want to make the minio_storage dataset a sublevel of production_backup. The end result should look like this:
production_backup
|-minio_storage
|- srv-minio1
|- srv-minio2
|- srv-minio4
|- srv-minio5
I Stopped all the running jails and plugin and ran mv /mnt/z2_bunker/minio_storage /mnt/z2_bunker/production_backup which resulted with this error:

Code:

root@truenas[/mnt/z2_bunker]# mv /mnt/z2_bunker/minio_storage /mnt/z2_bunker/production_backup
mv: rename /mnt/z2_bunker/minio_storage to /mnt/z2_bunker/production_backup/minio_storage: Operation not supported

Could anyone please provide some assistance?

Thank you

 

[sretalla]

what you probably want to know is that there's a zfs rename command... which works more-or-less like the mv command, but with datasets rather than directories.

So you use the dataset addressing, not the mounted location:
zfs rename z2_bunker/minio_storage z2_bunker/production_backup/minio_storage

 

[Fred974]

@sretalla Thank you for the command. I never heard of it but it did the job so quickly. I'm impressed.

 

[krantz]

what you probably want to know is that there's a zfs rename command... which works more-or-less like the mv command, but with datasets rather than directories.

So you use the dataset addressing, not the mounted location:
zfs rename z2_bunker/minio_storage z2_bunker/production_backup/minio_storage

Even now, after so many years since the creation of this post, is still useful and valid. Cheers!