Hello people, A few days ago, I had issues because I could not delete a snapshot taken with Timeshift. I tried to Google possible solutions. Then I made a huge mistake. I used “rm” as sudo. And this is how I reinstalled Fedora from scratch! :sweat_smile: I’ve been using Timeshift, and it is han…

You have a nested subvolume “var/lib/machines”, you need to delete it before you can delete the snapshot: sudo btrfs subvolume delete /patch/timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2023-08-13_09-24-31/@/var/lib/machines “patch” is the Timeshift mount path, it should be: /run/timeshift/backup you have to check. …

Unable to delete a btrfs snapshot

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emanuc (Emanuele) August 15, 2023, 10:02am 7

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Unable to delete a btrfs snapshot

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