On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
The articles I find on BtrFS snapshots all tell me how great this mechanism is and how to use it and set it up. But it seems already set up and working even without me doing anything to initiate it. There are hundreds of sub-directories under /.snapshot and they are filling up.
I believe .snapshot directory is used by snapper. Do you have it installed and enabled?
They are even filling up with stuff that comes from the NFS mounted stuff under /home !
Not sure about NFS, but on btrfs snapshots are point in time view of the whole filesystem (subvolume). They do not actually take up as much space as it seems.
I'm concerned because this is eating away at my small disk. Every time I do an zypper update this grows.
That supports my idea that you have snapper active.
If I try to delete I get a message telling me that the files are on a write-protected file system!
btrfs snapshots can be both read-only and writable. Probably snapper creates RO snapshots (makes sense in this case). You probably should use snapper to manage those snapshots in this case. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org