How to Delete a Datastore in SynetoOS 4

Written By Christian Castagna (Administrator)

Updated at October 22nd, 2025

Table of Contents

Via GUI Via CLI

→ Applies to: SynetoOS 4.x

WARNING
The delete operation will delete all data/snapshots present in the datastore and will no longer be recoverable.

Via GUI

Step 1. Login to SynetoOS GUI

Step 2. Click on Datastores in the left menu

Step 3. Select the datastore by clicking on the corresponding row

Step 4. Click on Delete

Step 1. Connect to SynetoOS appliance via SSH as admin

ssh admin@<your_ip_address_or_hostname>

Step 2. Remove bash_profile

rm ~admin/.bash_profile

After running the command, you need to perform logout and login again.

Step 3. Become Super User

sudo su

Step 4. List datastores

zfs list

Step 5. Delete a specific datastore (replace <pool_name> and <datastore_name> with the correct information)

zfs destroy -r -f <pool_name>/datastores/<datastore_name>