Re:Scripts for Btrfs Maintenance
by MaKey on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:28AM
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I'm not sure you can fault BTRFS for the issue you've experienced. It sounds like your system had a problem which lead to you breaking your (likely perfectly fine) BTRFS file system.
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Re:Scripts for Btrfs Maintenance
by omniglottal on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:58PM
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A filesystem breaks by the user pushing a button on their computer and you blame the user...?!
He had trouble mounting it on his system because of a duplicate UUID - this doesn't mean that the filesystem was broken. As Arnavion wrote:
> Since you say it's an external USB drive, perhaps it disconnected and reconnected uncleanly and the kernel thought there were two of that drive connected at the same time.