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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...
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.
thanks! but it seems you're right and snapshots aren't in the configs:
root@databox:~# snapper -c 0 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 1 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 2 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 3 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 4 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 5 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 6 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 7 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 8 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 9 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 10 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 11 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 12 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 13 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 14 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 15 delete 1-100000 Unknown config. root@databox:~# snapper -c 16 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 17 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 18 delete 1-100000 Unknown config. root@databox:~# snapper -c 19 delete 1-100000 Unknown config. root@databox:~# snapper -c 20 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found. root@databox:~# snapper -c 21 delete 1-100000 Snapshot '1' not found.
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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