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Snapshots using 500GB but never turned on.....why? (And how to recover the space)
GUI showing 500GB of space being used by Snapshots (and it grows every day). I do not have snapshots turned on, have never had them turned on (to my knowledge), and cannot find any snapshots in the ...
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I tried the "btrfs subvolume delete /data/BayBlueprint/.snapshots" but it gave me an error:
ERROR: cannot delete .......Directory not empty
I'll need to figure out if I can force a delete or recursively delete.
Each folder in /data/BayBlueprint/.snapshots is a subvolume, so I guess you do need to delete those. Try deleting one of them - for instance btrfs subvolume delete /data/BayBlueprint/.snapshots/5/snapshot
There is no recursive delete option, though I guess you could try to build a script. If you don't have too many, it's probably easiest to just change the /5/ to another snapshot index and redoing the command.
A brute-force approach is to back up the data, do a factory reset, rebuild the NAS configuration and then restore the data from backup.
Thanks. That was my "Plan B" if this round of balance/defrag/scrub doesn't produce any results.
What do you see for snapshots in btrfs.log?
It does have some entries pertaining to snapshot directories/files but I am not versed in deciphering this file (attached) so any help would be appreciated.
I did putty/ssh into the system and thought I looked at all snapshot files/folders and found them all to be empty. It is possible I did not see the ".snapshots" entries. I will look at those specific files this evening when I have access to the system after work.
Again, any insight to what my log file (attached) is telling me will be appreciated.
Thanks........
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