On 9/8/19 8:57 AM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > On 9/8/19 9:09 AM, Pete wrote: > (snip) >> I presume running another balance will fix this, but surely all metadata >> should have been converted? Is there a way to only balance the DUP >> metadata? > > Adding "soft" to -mconvert should do exactly that; it will then skip > any chunks that are already in the target profile. > > -h Appreciated. Fixed it, very rapidly, with: btrfs bal start -mconvert=raid1,soft /home_data I think a few examples on the wiki page would be helpful. As I don't do this sort of maintenance every day I looked at the filter section on the wiki / man pages online following your prompting and was adding 'type=soft' in various places with no success and it was about the 3rd reading of the relevant area where I cam up with the above which worked. Pete
