You can do:
snap create before_delete delete files snap delete before_delete
But this will not bring you into any better situation than the beginning one...
Usually I view it like a cake - you cannot eat it and expect it to be still complete - if you want to be able to restore files you will have to keep the snapshot. If disk space is more important at this point, just delete old snapshots OR change snap reserve.
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-----Original Message----- From: Kennard, Dave M SITI-ISEL-31 [mailto:Dave.M.Kennard@is.shell.com] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:19 To: 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: Snapshot Cheats?
List,
Is there any way to cheat with snapshots so that data in them can be deleted?
I have stupidly let a volume on my filer grow to capacity and want to free up space my moving files to another volume, if I just move the files I will get no gain in free disk space because the files will exist in the snapshot right?
Could I cheat this by taking a snapshot of the volume before I delete the files then delete the snapshot after the file are deleted?
Regards Dave Kennard