---- From: Peter Foley <pefoley2@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- Sent: 2020-07-11 - 21:39 ---- > Hi, > I've got a btrfs filesystem that started out using the single profile. > I'm trying to convert it to raid1, but got a strange error when doing so. > Note that this only started happening after the initial balance got canceled part-way through. > > btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1,profiles=single / > ERROR: error during balancing '/': No such file or directory > There may be more info in syslog - try dmesg | tail > You can try "btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1,soft /" 'soft' avoids balancing chunks that are already in the target profile. * * https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/btrfs-balance#FILTERS
