Re: Unhelpful error message from "btrfs" tool

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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:10, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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. ÂThis
>> 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. ÂI'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? ÂI'm not even sure where to start.
>
> do you have other nested subvols in it by accident? Âtry `btrfs sub
> list` to be sure.

That was the problem -- somehow there was another subvol inside.  Thanks!

-- Josh
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