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:
Cannot delete snapshot 166 since it is the next to be mounted snapshot.
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 /:
ID gen top level path
-- --- --------- ----
256 178487 5 timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2023-09-18_18-25-33/@
257 341688 5 @home
258 341680 5 @cache
259 341688 5 @log
260 26 256 timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2023-09-18_18-25-33/@/var/lib/portables
261 27 256 timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2023-09-18_18-25-33/@/var/lib/machines
708 341688 5 @
710 341680 708 .snapshots
2781 178991 5 timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2024-05-07_12-20-43/@
2968 326034 710 .snapshots/166/snapshot
2969 341679 710 .snapshots/167/snapshot
all those timeshift subvolumes are there because before snapper, I used to use timeshift. I tried to remove them:
sudo btrfs subvolume delete timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2023-09-18_18-25-33/@/var/lib/machines
ERROR: Could not statfs: No such file or directory
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!
It worked, thank you very much for your help man! Now the only remaining problem is the snapshot 166, that snapper does not let me remove. I assume I should remove in a similar way as timeshift:
$ sudo btrfs subvolume delete /.snapshots/166/snapshot WARNING: not deleting default subvolume id 2968 '/.snapshots/166/snapshot'I think there’s something I’m missing about how these snapshot works
The snapshot may be mounted to root. In the output of “mount” command, if there isn’t a subvolid= or subvol= parameter for root mount, snapshot 166 is currently mounted to root.