From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.220.54]:35622 "EHLO mail-pa0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757122AbbCRVj3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:39:29 -0400 Received: by pabyw6 with SMTP id yw6so54288148pab.2 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: syntax for deleting subvolumes? To: Chris Murphy references: <5509E34F.6010504@graphitesystems.com> Cc: Btrfs BTRFS From: K Richard Pixley message-id: <5509F08E.6070702@graphitesystems.com> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:39:26 -0700 mime-version: 1.0 in-reply-to: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 3/18/15 14:06 , Chris Murphy wrote: > The Fedora/RHEL/CentOS installer creates two subvolumes: root and > home. If you check out fstab, those subvolumes are mounted at / and > /home. Therefore the top level subvolume (id 5) is not mounted by > default, so there's no way to delete subvolumes in the top level. Ah! Thank you. That's the piece I was missing. IMO, someone needs to take a clue-by-four to the heads of the Fedora/RHEL/CentOS installer folks. I see no reason for this with btrfs. --rich