On 7/11/2020 5:08 PM, A L wrote: > > > ---- 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 > > > No dice, exact same failure mode: btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1,soft / ERROR: error during balancing '/': No such file or directory There may be more info in syslog - try dmesg | tail [146628.913952] BTRFS info (device sda3): balance: start -dconvert=raid1,soft [146628.914403] BTRFS info (device sda3): relocating block group 968545533952 flags data [146648.475913] BTRFS info (device sda3): found 11 extents, stage: move data extents [146649.198865] BTRFS info (device sda3): balance: ended with status: -2
