---
name: "zpool-wait"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "zfsutils-linux"
version: "2.3.9-0+deb13u1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux", "freebsd"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/zpool-wait"
---

# zpool-wait(8)

wait for activity to stop in a ZFS storage pool

## NAME

**zpool-wait** – wait for activity to stop in a ZFS storage pool

## SYNOPSIS

**zpool** **wait** \[**-Hp**\] \[**-T** **u**\|**d**\] \[**-t** *activity*\[,*activity*\]…\] *pool* \[*interval*\]

## DESCRIPTION

Waits until all background activity of the given types has ceased in the given pool. The activity could cease because it has completed, or because it has been paused or canceled by a user, or because the pool has been exported or destroyed. If no activities are specified, the command waits until background activity of every type listed below has ceased. If there is no activity of the given types in progress, the command returns immediately.

These are the possible values for *activity*, along with what each one waits for:

- **discard**

  Checkpoint to be discarded

- **free**

  **freeing** property to become **0**

- **initialize**

  All initializations to cease

- **replace**

  All device replacements to cease

- **remove**

  Device removal to cease

- **resilver**

  Resilver to cease

- **scrub**

  Scrub to cease

- **trim**

  Manual trim to cease

- **raidz\_expand**

  Attaching to a RAID-Z vdev to complete

If an *interval* is provided, the amount of work remaining, in bytes, for each activity is printed every *interval* seconds.

- **-H**

  Scripted mode. Do not display headers, and separate fields by a single tab instead of arbitrary space.

- **-p**

  Display numbers in parsable (exact) values.

- **-T** **u**\|**d**

  Display a time stamp. Specify **u** for a printed representation of the internal representation of time. See [time(1)](/time/1.md). Specify **d** for standard date format. See [date(1)](/date/1.md).

## SEE ALSO

[zpool-checkpoint(8)](/zpool-checkpoint/8.md), [zpool-initialize(8)](/zpool-initialize/8.md), [zpool-remove(8)](/zpool-remove/8.md), [zpool-replace(8)](/zpool-replace/8.md), [zpool-resilver(8)](/zpool-resilver/8.md), [zpool-scrub(8)](/zpool-scrub/8.md), [zpool-status(8)](/zpool-status/8.md), [zpool-trim(8)](/zpool-trim/8.md)