On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 12:05:39AM -0500, Justin Brown wrote: > I'm experimenting with btrfs-send. Previously (2014-09-26), I did my > first btrfs-send on a subvol, and that worked fine. Today, I tried to > send a new snapshot. Unfortunately, I realized part way through that I > forgot to specify the parent to only send a delta, and killed the send > with ^C. > > On the destination, I'm left with: > > ~$ sudo btrfs subvol list /var/media/backups/venus/home/ > ID 2820 gen 57717 top level 5 path media > ID 2821 gen 57402 top level 5 path ovirt > ID 4169 gen 57703 top level 2820 path media/backups/venus/home > ID 4170 gen 57575 top level 4169 path home-2014-09-26 > ID 4243 gen 57707 top level 4169 path home-2014-10-01 > > Home-2014-10-01 was the partial send that was cancelled. I figured > that I could delete this partial subvol and try again. > > ~$ sudo btrfs subvol del home-2014-10-01 > Transaction commit: none (default) > ERROR: error accessing 'home-2014-10-01'
If you're not doing this from /var/media/backups/venus/home/ it won't succeed. You need to specify (either via a relative path or an absolute one) where the subvol is, not just what its name is. (Consider what happens if you have two filesystems, each with a home-2014-09-26 subvol.) Hugo. > Obviously, trying to delete the subvol directory fails too: > > ~$ sudo rm -rf /var/media/backups/venus/home/home-2014-10-01/ > rm: cannot remove ‘/var/media/backups/venus/home/home-2014-10-01/’: > Operation not permitted > > Is there anyway to delete this partial subvol? > > Thanks, > Justin -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 65E74AC0 from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- All hope abandon, Ye who press Enter here. ---
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