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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.
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.
wrote:
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.
Thanks for the assist on the btrfs commands to locate and clean up my hidden snapshot files. I was able to create a script that located and then delete the snapshot subvolumes so I didn't have to do it via command line one at a time.
The UI does not show that I have reclaimed all the snapshot space yet but I believe it will once I get a chance to reboot the system. My scrub took 48 hours and that did reclaim a ton of space so things are looking much better.
Thanks again for your wisdom.
I'm glad you got it resolved.
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