On 28.01.20 г. 12:25 ч., Robbie Smith wrote: > I wanted to try to convert my music library from a directory into a > subvolume so I could use btrfs send/receive to transfer (changed) > files between it and a USB backup. A bit of Googling suggested that > the approach would be: > >> btrfs subvolume create /library/newmusic >> cp -ar --reflink=auto /library/music/* /library/newmusic/. >> rm -r /library/music > > After about 30 seconds I realised that it was deleting files from both > /library/music and /library/newmusic. It appears I've only lost > everything starting with A, B or C, so I unmounted the device, and am > currently trying to use `btrfs restore` to get the files back and it > doesn't seem to be finding them. > > I'm pretty sure deleting files from directory A isn't supposed to also > delete them from directory B, but that's what it did. Is this a bug? > Can you reproduce the same thing with a simple test directory? I was not able to reproduce it here? > Robbie >
