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Coffin_Jim
Mar 14, 2019Aspirant
Snapshots showing in GUI but not in share
We previously had an issue after updating the firmware to 6.9.5 that caused the share to be "unlinked" from the GUI. To resolve this, we created a new share and copied the data over.
Now - for ...
- Mar 18, 2019
Looking over this, I think we never used correct full path when triying to delete.
This should work.
# btrfs subv delete /data/Shared_Data/.snapshots/12260/snapshot
StephenB
Mar 14, 2019Guru - Experienced User
The only snapshot I see is
Coffin_Jim wrote:ID 19310 gen 554457 top level 272 path Shared_Data/.snapshots/12260/snapshot
What command did you use to attempt to delete it?
Coffin_Jim
Mar 14, 2019Aspirant
I tried several different variations of the following
# btrfs subvolume delete -c /Shared_Data/.snapshots
Also, when browsing through windows i can see the .purge folder but not .snapshots
- StephenBMar 14, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Try
# btrfs subvolume delete -c /Shared_Data/.snapshots/12260/snapshot
- Coffin_JimMar 15, 2019Aspirant
No joy i'm afraid:
Last login: Thu Mar 14 14:55:38 2019 from jca-01ict01pp root@Reflections:~# btrfs subvolume delete -c /Shared_Data/.snapshots/12260/snapshot ERROR: Could not statfs: No such file or directory root@Reflections:~#
- Coffin_JimMar 15, 2019Aspirant
Also, as previously mentioned - the snap shot directory does not show up in file explorer:
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