In the .snapshots directory I have three directories - named "7", "8", and "9" - that are each over 647,000 MB in size.
I don't know what these files are, nor how they get created.
They are taking up so much space on the disk that I cannot upload files to the nextcloud application.
What are these file?
What makes them?
How do I get rid of them?
very large snapshot files
Re: very large snapshot files
These are actually not files, although they look like it. These are btrfs filesystem snapshots created automatically with "snapper" (see http://snapper.io/ ) during certain ubos-admin operations -- basically an extra form of insurance kept around for a while in case something goes wrong.
You can remove some/all of them, which will indeed free up disk space (but not immediately: btrfs needs to have some time to do cleanup):
To see more info about those snapshots:
To delete listed snapshot number 1:
You can remove some/all of them, which will indeed free up disk space (but not immediately: btrfs needs to have some time to do cleanup):
To see more info about those snapshots:
Code: Select all
sudo snapper list
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sudo snapper delete 1