On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 01:56:07PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> The typical problem scenario is:  Some user or users fill up the filesystem.
> They rm some files, but disk space is not freed.  You need to destroy all
> the snapshots that contain the deleted files, before disk space is available
> again.
> 
> It would be nice if you could rm files from snapshots, without needing to
> destroy the whole snapshot.
> 
> Is there any existing work or solution for this?  

See the archives.  See the other replies to you already.  Short version: no.

However, a script to find all the snapshots that you'd have to delete in
order to delete some file might be useful, but really, only marginally
so: you should send your snapshots to backup and clean them out from
time to time anyways.

Nico
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