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SauvageSausage's avatar
Mar 05, 2022
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[RNDU6000] How do I recover the space taken up by the 'ghost' snapshots?

Me noticed my NAS is going out of the free space, so I get into the admin panel. Removing all the snapshots of both folders and home folders didn't change anything, actually.   How do I free the sp...
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Mar 08, 2022

    I'd try deleting some of them manually (one at a time), and confirm that there are no errors.

     

    There is a -c option, which waits for the deletion to be committed before the btrfs subvolume delete returns.  Might be worth trying that on one or two.

     

    With some work, you could create a script to extract each snapshot path from the list, and then build the btrfs command to delete it.  But as I mentioned earlier, you'd need to be careful not to accidentally end up deleting a share by mistake.

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