25 Oct
2001
25 Oct
'01
8:35 a.m.
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:36:12AM +0200, Benny Wiström wrote:
I have copied approximately 70Gb from one volume to another. Now I want to delete the data from the original volume. Is is possible to do this without having the data end up in the snapshots and filling up the volume? I would prefer if this could be done without having to delete any snapshots since it still is other data on the volume.
No, it's not possible.
Note that the newly deleted data doesn't really `fill up the volume'. It's just that its space isn't released as `free space' until the last snapshot stops referring to it. (Slight semantic difference ;-)
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