-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/2014 03:27 PM, Marcus Sundman wrote: > On 25.02.2014 22:19, Hugo Mills wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:05:51PM -0500, Jim Salter wrote: >>> 370GB of 410GB used isn't really "fine", it's over 90% usage. >>> >>> That said, I'd be interested to know why btrfs fi show >>> /dev/sda3 shows 412.54G used, but btrfs fi df /home shows 379G >>> used... >> This is an FAQ... >> >> btrfs fi show tells you how much is allocated out of the >> available pool on each disk. btrfs fi df then shows how much of >> that allocated space (in each category) is used. > > What is the difference between the "used 371.11GB" and the "used > 412.54GB" displayed by "btrfs fi show"? > >> The problem here is also in the FAQ: the metadata is close to >> full -- typically something like 500-750 MiB of headroom is >> needed in metadata. The FS can't allocate more metadata because >> it's allocated everything already (total=used in btrfs fi show), >> so the solution is to do a filtered balance: >> >> btrfs balance start -dusage=5 /mountpoint > > Of course that was the first thing I tried, and it didn't help *at* > *all*: > The -dusage=<number> is a means to an end, so if that doesn't work try a larger number, up to 100. Really once you pass 50 and it's not working then it's time to just do a balance. The next thing is to use compression (too late for this option really) or add another disk. Thanks, Josef -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTDP1mAAoJEANb+wAKly3BQooQAMjRfSc0fJcrVFhNqAXvuxKO f9ALYcENk7mVEMiyPg9v/7oiHW+FSQuJxaJ+yPlLTvepFmh3VE00t4PHsTCheAld KdIoP9KzvCrmPSH5YxBg9Tmk60lonYnGfCsggK3kgRP8JIHUcBRKzlFKAc3p8vzY UEEYLS0AYXvBAPdY3bUwhB5txMDvNbetew8ak5nUgZaC1J4rWe7LL6ccv845hhf5 OHcKLu3MjR6ejW9qDK9RC2ryjCY+vDCUMO4VPpma3OZ6OHA3g7niaXYqBEvht7O0 yNeGQA54O1goIFo9knPG4XE7WurlF69n+knQA7dsqjux9bIXHVClCCwsrUpXJIY3 98KigtPVz737j1dNqaeQdn6xl6kwRpj2lRhWuPBZ1AnJNWr1cLK2jmWOuFmyrdi8 vTNJJvUlpwGnnUHdXu8WjMCSNgXX9pIXDZIC/f22wjZFyY23yfSYOTCXTEOlpH8b b4R7VnZ6QfxGgJnqhHPWBE7FRaekI2MLfT6aYVL2sNvVPZoMo0wzjnxshwp2+8dK C0j2sNsoRdKPlGECYuh2eG40JQG2JKnZr2bMSwDI40GvDcQmyG7gD+jouOtei/vv KUDDfhNGnv0SdqmAk/UC4Cl1dDD9Y4Z0kAuAd7iTJhAcLszteeGqiDvdvtup5o7i HZcFmZX6EPBZXKrIcnzJ =+Oe0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
