How to safely remove disk from zpool and recover data?

[newtofilemgmt]

Hi all,

I'm new to OpenZFS and couldn't find the documentation to this.
I have a drive with 10gb of data that I added to a zpool. I deleted the zpool using zpool destroy, and afterwards was unable to mount the original drive back with Disk Utility.
I was getting error Could not mount “disk1”. (com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error -119930868).

I was able to use Disk Utility to recover the drive without losing data. For future reference, how do I avoid getting into this scenario? Or is this expected behavior?
Is zpool destroy the correct way to remove a pool without affecting data on my underlying drives?

[jawbroken]

I'm confused as to what you actually did here. Was the 10 GB of data stored in the zpool or did you create a zpool on a drive that already had 10 GB data on it (on a different slice, perhaps)?

[newtofilemgmt]

The second option. Created a zpool on a disk that already had 10gb of data. Decided to remove it from the pool (destroyed the pool). Went to try to mount the disk (original partition/slice with the 10gb of data) to access the already existing data and was unable to do so until I used First Aid Recovery in Disk Utility.