On 4/30/20 11:13, Jean-Denis Girard wrote: > > Hi Phil, > > I did something similar one month ago. It took less than 4 hours for > 1.71 TiB of data: > > [xxx@taina ~]$ sudo btrfs replace status /home/SysNux > Started on 21.Mar 11:13:20, finished on 21.Mar 15:06:33, 0 write errs, 0 > uncorr. read errs I just realized you did a *replace* rather than a *remove*. When I did a replace on another drive, it also went much faster. It must copy the data from the old drive to the new one in larger and/or more contiguous chunks. It's only the remove operation that's painfully slow. Phil
