Unable to delete cloned snapshot

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Hello yesterday i created a clone from a snapshot to access the snaphot files,

now i want to delete the cloned snapshot dataset

so get the following message

Failed to delete dataset: cannot destroy ‘pool-001/auto-dayli-2025-11-04_23-00-clone’: filesystem has dependent clones use ‘-R’ to destroy the following datasets: pool-001/.system/configs-ae32c386e13840b2bf9c0083275e7941@auto-dayli-2025-10-23_23-00 pool-001/.system/configs-

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then i want do unmount and delete from cli

zfs unmount ‘pool-001/auto-dayli-2025-11-04_23-00-clone’

zfs destroy -r ‘pool-001/auto-dayli-2025-11-04_23-00-clone’

nothing happened, the cloned snaphot poo still exist

pool-001/auto-dayli-2025-11-04_23-00-clone 675G 4.22T 428G /mnt/pool-001/auto-dayli-2025-11-04_23-00-clone

Can you tell me how to clean this situation ?

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Hi.

Don’t know how to properly manage your situation. But, FWIW, you don’t need to clone the dataset’s snapshot to access previous versions. By default datasets have a hidden .zfs directory that contains all the snapshots. This directory can even be accessed over SMB.

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