Re: A user cannot remove his readonly snapshots?!

[Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>]

On Sat 2017-09-16 (10:10), Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:

> > tux@xerus: btrfs subvolume snapshot -r /test/tux/zz /test/tux/zz/.snapshot/2017-09-15_1824.test
> > tux@xerus: btrfs subvolume delete /test/tux/zz/.snapshot/2017-09-15_1824.test
> > Delete subvolume (no-commit): '/test/tux/zz/.snapshot/2017-09-15_1824.test'
> > ERROR: cannot delete '/test/tux/zz/.snapshot/2017-09-15_1824.test': Read-only file system
> > 
> > root can delete this snapshot, but not the user. Why?
> 
> You should change the "ro" property to false before deleting it
> 
> 	btrfs property set /test/tux/zz/.snapshot/2017-09-15_1824.test ro false

tux@xerus: btrfs property set /test/tux/zz/.snapshot/2017-09-15_1824.test ro false
tux@xerus: btrfs subvolume delete /test/tux/zz/.snapshot/2017-09-15_1824.test
Delete subvolume (no-commit): '/test/tux/zz/.snapshot/2017-09-15_1824.test'

That's it! It works (now)! Great! Thanks!

Up to now I was thinking about a sudo solution, but this is not necessary
any more. Less complex solutions are always better :-)

I *love* this mailing list :-)

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