On 18.02.20 г. 10:38 ч., Menion wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Is it normal that a command like:
>
> btrfs balance start -mconvert=raid1 /array/mount/point
>
> Does not fork in background? I have tried this for converting metadata
> from RAID5 to RAID1 but it did not go in background, even if in
> another shell brtfs balance status /array/mount/point reported the
> status correctly
If you have actually bothered to read the help of the balance command
you would have had the answer of your question. Namely,
btrfs balance start --help
...
--background|--bg
run the balance as a background process
>
> Bye
>
