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Snapshots not deleting and taking up disk space
Hi Everyone,
We have an older ReadyNAS 312 that is showing that there are alot of snapshots but there are only a couple after I delted them. I have run the SSH commands:
# touch /.force_snapshots_upgrade # systemctl restart readynasd
But it still shows there is alot of snapshots. Any suggestions on how to remove them.
Thanks! :smileyhappy:
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zimmfor wrote:
We have an older ReadyNAS 312 that is showing that there are alot of snapshots but there are only a couple after I delted them. But it still shows there is a lot of snapshots.
Not exactly. It shows they are taking a lot of space, but not how many there are. So try deleting them all.
If that doesn't help, then start with
# btrfs subvolume list -s /data
That will give you a list of the snapshots. Copy/paste the list output into notepad or some other editor on the PC, it will help later on.
Then delete each one with
# btrfs subvolume delete -c path
Path will be something like /data/sharename/.shapshots/###/snapshot You'll need to prepend each of the path names shown in the list command with /data/ Note that wildcards can't be used with this command, you'll need to enter each one.
When done, it might take some time to free up the space. Running a balance (from the volume settings wheel) after they are deleted is a good idea.
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