> So I have ended up in a state where I can't delete files with rm. > > the error I get is no space on device. however I'm not even close to empty. > /dev/sdb1 38G 27G 9.5G 75% > there is about 800k files/dirs in this filesystem > > extra strange is that I can in another directory create and delete files. > > So I tried pretty much all I could google my way to but problem > persisted. So I decided to do a backup and a format. But when the backup > was done I tried one more time and now it was possible to delete the > directory and all content? > > using the 3.5 kernel in ubuntu 12.10. Is this a known issue ? is it > fixed in later kernels? > > fsck /btrfs scrub and kernel log. nothing indicate any problem of any kind. > First let's see the output of: btrfs fi df /mountpoint You're probably way over allocated in metadata so a balance should help: btrfs bal start -m /mountpoint or omit the -m option to run a full balance. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
