Marc MERLIN <m...@merlins.org> writes: > I made a mistake and copied data in the root of a new btrfs filesystem. > I created a subvolume, and used mv to put everything in there. > Something like: > cd /mnt > btrfs subvolume create dir > mv * dir > > Except it's been running for over a day now (ok, it's 5TB of data) > > Looks like mv is really copying all the data as if it were an entirely > different filesystem. > > Is there not a way to short circuit this and only update the metadata?
Why not make a snapshot of the root volume, and then delete the files you want to move from the original root, and delete the rest of root from the snapshot? David -- 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
