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The trick was to insert a USB drive, tell BTRFS it's block storage and delete away. Once you're done you tell it not to use the disk and you're good. This is w
by proaralyst 7y ago
The trick was to insert a USB drive, tell BTRFS it's block storage and delete away. Once you're done you tell it not to use the disk and you're good.
This is why I'm back on ext4 now, too.
- tezzer 7y agoGood trick, I'll save that one. Thanks!
- zlynx 7y agoI do a similar thing with my laptop's swap partition. swapoff, add it to btrfs, then remove it and mkswap again. Always seemed safer than a potentially dodgy USB drive.
- adamzegelin 7y agoOr, if you don't care about your data, add a RAM disk :P