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doedoe

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Registered: 2017-08-26

Posts: 3

Disabling CoW for a single folder on btrfs

Hi.
I want to install Windows on a virtual machine. So I need to disable CoW for the directory with VMs, I don't want do disable it for the whole partition.
Wiki article says that it's possible to do so with $ chattr +C /dir/file. I think this can also be done by creating a separate partition with no CoW for my VMs.
Which way is better?

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Disabling CoW for a single folder on btrfs

I used chattr to set my VM folder to nocow. It's quicker and easier than repartitioning.

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