# New Forum **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES for POWER\ **Created:** [October 31, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/new-forum/28869 "2016-10-31T19:57:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Automatic\_Reply](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecb155/32.png) [@Automatic\_Reply](https://forums.suse.com/u/Automatic_Reply)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/new-forum/28869/1 "2016-10-31T19:57:53Z")
Welcome to the new SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for POWER discussion forum. Please feel free to post any discussion or questions regarding this product here. More information about this product can be found here: [https://www.suse.com/products/power/](https://www.suse.com/products/power/) ---
**Author:** ![rahul\_gaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@rahul\_gaur](https://forums.suse.com/u/rahul_gaur)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/new-forum/28869/2 "2017-03-23T11:56:10Z")
[QUOTE=Automatic Reply;34983]Welcome to the new SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for POWER discussion forum. Please feel free to post any discussion or questions regarding this product here. More information about this product can be found here: [https://www.suse.com/products/power/](https://www.suse.com/products/power/)[/QUOTE] We have SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1. In every default installation of this SUSE build with even 100GB of space allocated to disk, space gets full in just 2-3 days automatically. Seems like snapshots are building continuously in SUSE and we are not able to find a solution to stop them. We tried below possible solutions : 1. Uninstalled snapper plugin 2. Removed snapper cron job files 3. Deleted Snapshot files from .snapshot directory But still snapshots keeps generating and when we try to delete snapshot directory or its files, command stops working in SUSE machine like ls, cd, scp, etc. not even yast is not able to open. Can you please help in finding a solution to stop as well as remove these snapshots. ---
**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/new-forum/28869/3 "2017-03-23T14:34:12Z")
> [@](#): > > On Thu 23 Mar 2017 10:04:01 AM CDT, rahul gaur wrote: > > Automatic Reply;34983 Wrote:[color=blue] > > > Welcome to the new SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for POWER discussion > > forum. Please feel free to post any discussion or questions regarding > > this product here. > > > > More information about this product can be found here: > > [https://www.suse.com/products/power/](https://www.suse.com/products/power/)[/color] > > We have SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1. > In every default installation of this SUSE build with even 100GB of > space allocated to disk, space gets full in just 2-3 days > automatically. > > Seems like snapshots are building continuously in SUSE and we are not > able to find a solution to stop them. > > We tried below possible solutions : > > 1. Uninstalled snapper plugin > 2. Removed snapper cron job files > 3. Deleted Snapshot files from .snapshot directory > > But still snapshots keeps generating and when we try to delete snapshot > directory or its files, command stops working in SUSE machine like ls, > cd, scp, etc. not even yast is not able to open. > > Can you please help in finding a solution to stop as well as remove > these snapshots. Hi You need to configure the settings in the /etc/snapper/configs/root file, to reduce the snapshot number. If your installing a file here and a file there on the system, then yes snapshots build up. Deleting the cronjob is not the right thing to do, you need to manually run so it will cleanup, also ensure the btrfs maintenance tools are installed and run the weekly cronjob to balance btrfs filesystem. Manual deletion of snapshots may break the system (esp 0 and 1) if you don’t use the tools provided to cleanup the snapshots. Your not running something like a database etc on btrfs? If so this should be off on it’s own (xfs) partition. Is this really a power system? – Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE Leap 42.1|GNOME 3.16.2|4.1.38-50-default If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, please show your appreciation and click on the star below… Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![rahul\_gaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@rahul\_gaur](https://forums.suse.com/u/rahul_gaur)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 8:42am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/new-forum/28869/4 "2017-03-28T08:42:43Z")
[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;37162]Hi You need to configure the settings in the /etc/snapper/configs/root file, to reduce the snapshot number. If your installing a file here and a file there on the system, then yes snapshots build up. Deleting the cronjob is not the right thing to do, you need to manually run so it will cleanup, also ensure the btrfs maintenance tools are installed and run the weekly cronjob to balance btrfs filesystem. Manual deletion of snapshots may break the system (esp 0 and 1) if you don’t use the tools provided to cleanup the snapshots. Your not running something like a database etc on btrfs? If so this should be off on it’s own (xfs) partition. Is this really a power system? – Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE Leap 42.1|GNOME 3.16.2|4.1.38-50-default If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, please show your appreciation and click on the star below… Thanks![/QUOTE] Yes this is powerSystem 8. So deleting these snapshots using Yast is safe? And is there any specific snapshot we should not even touch while cleanup ? ---
**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/new-forum/28869/5 "2017-03-28T15:49:16Z")
> [@](#): > > On Tue 28 Mar 2017 05:44:01 AM CDT, rahul gaur wrote: > > malcolmlewis;37162 Wrote:[color=blue] > > > Hi > > You need to configure the settings in the /etc/snapper/configs/root > > file, to reduce the snapshot number. If your installing a file here > > and a file there on the system, then yes snapshots build up. > > > > Deleting the cronjob is not the right thing to do, you need to > > manually run so it will cleanup, also ensure the btrfs maintenance > > tools are installed and run the weekly cronjob to balance btrfs > > filesystem. > > > > Manual deletion of snapshots may break the system (esp 0 and 1) if you > > don’t use the tools provided to cleanup the snapshots. > > > > Your not running something like a database etc on btrfs? If so this > > should be off on it’s own (xfs) partition. > > > > Is this really a power system? > > > > – > > Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) > > openSUSE Leap 42.1|GNOME 3.16.2|4.1.38-50-default > > If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, > > please show your appreciation and click on the star below… Thanks![/color] > > Yes this is powerSystem 8. > > So deleting these snapshots using Yast is safe? > And is there any specific snapshot we should not even touch while > cleanup ? Hi The first two, if you run the command from a terminal (as root user); ```auto snapper list ``` You should see ‘Current’ and ‘first root filesystem’ don’t remove those. But running the cron job /etc/cron.daily/suse.de-snapper and then /etc/cron.weekly/btrfs-balance should clean things up with using the YaST tool, as long as you have configured the snapshot Timeline and Number in the config file. – Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE Leap 42.1|GNOME 3.16.2|4.1.38-50-default If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, please show your appreciation and click on the star below… Thanks!