ZPOOL-HISTORY(8)

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💅 ZPOOL-HISTORY(8) — or, "bestie, let's go through the group chat of your storage pool"

okay so this is the zpool-history page, straight out of the System Manager's Manual (yes, the whole system's manual, she's kind of a big deal 👑). It's the manual for zpool history, and ngl it's short, sweet, and lowkey iconic. Let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

zpool-history — inspect command history of ZFS storage pools 🕵️♀️

Like, it's your pool's receipts. Every command it ever ran? Recorded. It's giving "I screenshotted everything" energy and honestly? We respect it. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

zpool history [-il] [pool]…

That's it. That's the whole vibe. Two lil flags and then as many pool names as you want. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

It displays the command history of the specified pool(s) — or, if you don't name a single pool, it shows you all pools, because it's generous like that. ✨

🎀 the flags 🎀

  • -i — shows you the internally logged ZFS events in addition to the user initiated events. So it's not just what you typed, it's what ZFS was doing behind the scenes too. Main character AND the supporting cast. 💅
  • -l — displays log records in long format. And long format means: on top of the standard format, you also get the user name, the hostname, and the zone in which the operation was performed. Basically the whole "who, where, and which zone" receipts. 📍

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Go read these too, they're all part of the same friend group:

no cap: if you're debugging "wait, WHO ran that command on my pool and from WHERE" — that's -l. That's the one. 🍓

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one comes to you from OpenZFS, dated July 11, 2022 — go forth and check your history, you absolute legend 🧚💜

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