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
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 09:32:50AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> 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 f
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 05:41:55PM +, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 09:32:50AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > 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
>
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:00:41AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 05:41:55PM +, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 09:32:50AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > > I made a mistake and copied data in the root of a new btrfs filesystem.
> > > I created a subvolume, and
Marc MERLIN 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)
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:48:50PM -0800, David Brown wrote:
> 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?
Are a snapshot of the root volume and a subvolume effectively the same th
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:48:50PM -0800, David Brown wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Are a snapsh