On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:01 AM Oliver Rath <oli...@greenunit.de> wrote: > > Hi list, > > Im using lxd 3.18 on ubuntu 18.04. Now i realized, that my (fast) space > of lxc-vms exhausted, so i decided to put mv my snaps to another drive > with changing the directory "containers-snapshots" into a softlink > redirecting the snapshots to another drive. > > Unfortunatly on creating a new snapshots got the message > > cannot create directory > "/var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/storage-pools/default/containers-snapshots", > file exists. > > I assume, that the lxc doesnt recognize, that containers-snapshots is a > (correct) link to the corresponding files. What can I do?
What is the backing storage of your default lxd storage pool on? If unsure, run "lxc storage show default | grep driver". lxc snapshots uses snapshot feature of the underlying storage (if available), so you can't simply trick it with symlinks. -- Fajar _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
