From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59879 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751726AbbFAMgu (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2015 08:36:50 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YzOxS-00072d-Vt for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:36:47 +0200 Received: from exa2-in-fw-01-epn.hns.com ([139.85.223.11]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:36:46 +0200 Received: from ndbecker2 by exa2-in-fw-01-epn.hns.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:36:46 +0200 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: Neal Becker Subject: [newb] move /home to subvolume Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:36:40 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I have everything under /: sudo btrfs subvolume list / ID 257 gen 65795 top level 5 path root I want to move /home onto it's own subvolume. I hope I can do this while the root device is mounted. What is the procedure? I tried first to create a subvolume for /home at the top-level, but couldn't figure out the syntax: [nbecker@nbecker2 ~]$ sudo btrfs subvolume create /home [sudo] password for nbecker: ERROR: '/home' exists -- Those who fail to understand recursion are doomed to repeat it