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ScottChapman
Nov 27, 2014Apprentice
Empty directories that are apparently not empty?
So, I ended up with a few directories (Music, Pictures, Videos) which are in my /data folder that I can't remove. I deleted the shares associated with them, but the directories cannot be removed ev...
mdgm-ntgr
Nov 27, 2014NETGEAR Employee Retired
# btrfs subvolume delete /data/old/Music/.snapshots/1/snapshot
# btrfs subvolume delete /data/old/Music/.snapshots
# btrfs subvolume delete /data/old/Music
Then try removing the directories e.g. using rmdir if the directories still exist.
Be careful to enter the commands correctly. Don't delete the wrong subvolume by mistake.
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