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Old Snapshot Deletion Errors
I was removing several old auto-snapshots from a RN316 OS6, and unfortunately something went wrong and the NAS went into a constant reboot/reset sequence. I rebooted in safe mode, scan disk'ed, etc. a...
I had the same problems: I could not get rid of snapshots or a share. I managed to delete all snapshots via SSH, freeing some 400 GB :)
Be very careful with these commands, you can delete all your data.
in SSH, I used the following command to list all snapshots. The -s let's me view only the snapshots
The following command I used for deleting some snapshots. The * is the wildcard for the various numbers after c_
The only problem is that apparently the Snapshot database of Frontview is not updated in this manner. But well, the database was corrupted anyway, so :roll:
Be very careful with these commands, you can delete all your data.
in SSH, I used the following command to list all snapshots. The -s let's me view only the snapshots
btrfs subvolume list /data -s
The following command I used for deleting some snapshots. The * is the wildcard for the various numbers after c_
btrfs subvolume delete /data/._share/eBooks/.snapshot/c_*
The only problem is that apparently the Snapshot database of Frontview is not updated in this manner. But well, the database was corrupted anyway, so :roll:
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