[help] I can't remove some BTRFS subvolumes + bonus questions
Hello! My disk space was out of space left, so I decided to remove some snapper snapshot. snapper list
listed over 360 snapshots. I removed them, and freed 50Gb of space. One of these hasn’t been deleted successfully:
<span style="color:#323232;">Cannot delete snapshot 166 since it is the next to be mounted snapshot.
</span>
it’s description is writable copy of #156
. How can I remove it? should I do it using btrfs subvolume delete
?
here’s the output of sudo btrfs subvolume list -t /
:
<span style="color:#323232;">ID gen top level path
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-- --- --------- ----
</span><span style="color:#323232;">256 178487 5 timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2023-09-18_18-25-33/@
</span><span style="color:#323232;">257 341688 5 @home
</span><span style="color:#323232;">258 341680 5 @cache
</span><span style="color:#323232;">259 341688 5 @log
</span><span style="color:#323232;">260 26 256 timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2023-09-18_18-25-33/@/var/lib/portables
</span><span style="color:#323232;">261 27 256 timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2023-09-18_18-25-33/@/var/lib/machines
</span><span style="color:#323232;">708 341688 5 @
</span><span style="color:#323232;">710 341680 708 .snapshots
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2781 178991 5 timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2024-05-07_12-20-43/@
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2968 326034 710 .snapshots/166/snapshot
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2969 341679 710 .snapshots/167/snapshot
</span>
all those timeshift subvolumes are there because before snapper, I used to use timeshift. I tried to remove them:
<span style="color:#323232;">sudo btrfs subvolume delete timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2023-09-18_18-25-33/@/var/lib/machines
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ERROR: Could not statfs: No such file or directory
</span>
If I understand correctly, it means that I should give an actual “system” path instead of the path in the table, but I don’t understand which path
thanks in advance to everyone!