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cwsyeh
Sep 09, 2019Aspirant
Deleting Redundant Time Machine Backup
I noticed that my NAS was low on space, but the numbers didn't add up, so I checked the file structure and notice there is approximately 1TB of timemachine backup that was for a machine that is no lo...
- Sep 10, 2019
cwsyeh wrote:
Log in as root using the NAS admin password.
This worked for me, now I can see the list, but how delete the folder? I assume rm will not work?
# btrfs subvolume delete -c /path
using the fully qualified folder name (/data/... )
The -c tells btrfs to wait for the deletion to complete. You can omit that if you want.
cwsyeh
Sep 09, 2019Aspirant
This doesn't actually work on my terminal....says command not found...?
btrfs subvolume list /data
StephenB
Sep 09, 2019Guru - Experienced User
cwsyeh wrote:
This doesn't actually work on my terminal....says command not found...?
btrfs subvolume list /data
You run this from ssh on the NAS - is that what you did?
- cwsyehSep 09, 2019Aspirant
Yeah, I ran ssh admin@192.168.1.XX to log on first and then tried the command, it says command not found...?
StephenB wrote:
cwsyeh wrote:This doesn't actually work on my terminal....says command not found...?
btrfs subvolume list /data
You run this from ssh on the NAS - is that what you did?
- StephenBSep 09, 2019Guru - Experienced User
cwsyeh wrote:
Yeah, I ran ssh admin@192.168.1.XX to log on first and then tried the command, it says command not found...?
StephenB wrote:
cwsyeh wrote:
This doesn't actually work on my terminal....says command not found...?
btrfs subvolume list /data
You run this from ssh on the NAS - is that what you did?
Log in as root using the NAS admin password.
- cwsyehSep 10, 2019Aspirant
Log in as root using the NAS admin password.
This worked for me, now I can see the list, but how delete the folder? I assume rm will not work?
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