ZFS: Remove an existing zfs filesystem

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ZFS: Remove an existing zfs filesystem

# Tested on RHEL 6 & 7

# Choose the F.S. to remove

zfs list
   NAME           USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
   c_pool         349M 19.2G    30K /c_pool
   c_pool/zfs01   349M   675M   349M /zfs01
   c_pool/zfs02    30K 19.2G    30K /filesystem02    <----
   m_pool         100K 9.78G    30K /m_pool

ZPOOL=c_pool
ZFSFS=zfs02
MNTPT=`zfs list | grep $ZPOOL/$ZFSFS | awk '{print$NF}'`; echo $MNTPT
   /filesystem02

# Remove F.S.

zfs destroy $ZPOOL/$ZFSFS

rmdir $MNTPT

# Check

zfs list
   NAME           USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
   c_pool         349M 19.2G    30K /c_pool
   c_pool/zfs01   349M   675M   349M /zfs01
   m_pool         100K 9.78G    30K /m_pool

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