Cannot delete old timeshift snapshots after installing snapper

shayaknyc · 6 October 2021 19:47

Hey y'all, s'me again....

So, I noticed in Garuda Assistant, after replacing Timeshift with Snapper:

On the Btrfs tab, I toggled on "Show subvolume tab"
On the Btrfs Subvolumes tab, I toggled on "Include Timeshift and Snapper Snapshots".

There, I have listed, all the Snapper snapshots listed up top, then the regular btrfs subvolumes (@, @cache, @home, etc), and then underneath the regular btrfs subvolumes, I have a series of subvolumes that begin with timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/[DATE]/[SUBVOLUME]

Btrfs Subvolume Screenshot

This tab has a button to "Delete Selected", but nothing happens when I click on it. I can confirm that Garuda Assistant is running with sudo privileges, as it prompts for my PW on execution.

I've checked the solution in another thread, but that seems to be specific to Timeshift, which I no longer have installed, and I'd be loathe to trying to do it manually via command-line, as I will most definitely bork my system. Any ideas?

Thanks!!

inxi -Faz

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dalto · 6 October 2021 19:57

I am seeing the same issue. Let me take a look and see if I can figure out what is going on there.

EDIT: Well, that didn’t take long. The issue is that it uses timeshift to delete it if it is a timeshift snapshot. Let me fix that so it checks to see if timeshift is installed first.

filo · 6 October 2021 20:08

I think I had the same issue.
What I had to do without timeshift is to mount each subvolume and then I was able to delete them (I had only 3 or 4 of them), e.g.
sudo btrfs subvolume list /
sudo mount -o subvolid=602 /dev/sda5 /mnt
sudo btrfs subvolume delete -i 602 /mnt
then
sudo umount /mnt
finally
sudo update-grub to remove them from the grub as well.
I hope I remember the procedure correctly, since it was a few weeks ago now, but this is what my history seems to tell me...

dalto · 6 October 2021 20:13

You definitely don’t need to do that. If you mount the root of the btrfs volume you can delete them all in one command using xargs.

dalto · 6 October 2021 20:14

This is now fixed and will be in the next version.

filo · 6 October 2021 20:15

Yes, I see, I was a bit "panicking" at that time and since they were only 3 I did it manually...

dalto · 6 October 2021 20:17

I didn’t realize you were in a high-pressure emergency snapshot removal situation.

filo · 6 October 2021 20:19

It is just that for a moment I thought I had done something wrong moving from timeshift to snapper but, as stubborn as I am, I tried to solve it myself.
Sometimes I do... before thinking...
But it worked, so I completely forgot about it until I read this thread.

shayaknyc · 6 October 2021 20:52

Thanks! I’ll wait for the update instead of enumerating manually through all “timeshift” snapshots, as I’m not very familiar with xargs and I don’t wanna mess anything up.

system · 8 October 2021 20:53

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