[Help] Unable to delete files even from shell

[bartmans99]

Hi,

For future reference. I had a problem removing files from my volume. Even as root from the SSH it failed. Error message said the file was read-only. I checked the different posts in this forum on repairing BTRFS volumes. Nothing worked.

Finally found https://forums.urbackup.org/t/how-to-de ... on/6660/11

Executing

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btrfs subvolume list /Volume1 

revealed that the non-deletable directories where btrfs subvolumes. Removing them 1 by 1 with

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btrfs subvolume delete -c /Volume1/path/to/directories

finally deleted the files.

I came close to nuking my install to get rid of these files (as they were almost 1TB). So hopefully this helps someone else someday.