On Dec 13, 2013, at 9:31 AM, Gene Czarcinski <gczarcin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/13/2013 11:07 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote: >> I have hunted high and low for the information but, if it is out there, >> it is well hidden. >> >> What I want to do: I want to relocate (move) a subvolume from one BTRFS >> volume to a different BTRFS volume. >> >> I have seen the writeup for incremental backup which takes a snapshot, >> and then using btrfs-send and btrfs-receive to create a copy on a >> different volume. That works fine except the btrfs-receive set the new >> copy to be readonly. >> >> What I want to do is to use that new subvolume read/write. The only way >> I have figured out to do this is to create another snapshot on the new >> volume which is NOT readonly. I believe that means I need to keep both >> of these subvolumes around. > > As soon as I sent this I believe I found the answer. > > I was sort of right about creating the new read-write (NOT readonly) > snapshot. After it is created simply delete the one which was created by > btrfs-receive. > > I also found out that if you want to rename a subvolume, siple do it with > "mv" like you would for a directory or a file. > > OK folks, do I have it correct? Yes. Chris Murphy-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
