Re: Unhelpful error message from "btrfs" tool

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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Josh Berry <des@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a cron script that runs periodically, taking new snapshots and
> cleaning up old ones when space gets low on my filesystem.  This
> morning, the script suddenly stopped being able to remove snapshots.
> When I tried to remove one manually, I got the following:
>
> # btrfs subvol del 2010-11-07-01:17:01
> Delete subvolume '/btrfs/snapshot/2010-11-07-01:17:01'
> ERROR: cannot delete '/btrfs/snapshot/2010-11-07-01:17:01'
>
> There is nothing in dmesg or in the above output to tell me what the
> problem is, how to fix it, etc.  I'm running kernel 2.6.36, and I
> updated btrfs-progs-unstable to the lastest Git revision
> (1b444cd2e6...), with the same result.
>
> How do I diagnose this issue?  I'm not even sure where to start.

do you have other nested subvols in it by accident?  try `btrfs sub
list` to be sure.

and it's not mounted right?

C Anthony
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