From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from magic.merlins.org ([209.81.13.136]:41104 "EHLO mail1.merlins.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756573Ab3HYRF3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:05:29 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 09:29:13 -0700 From: Marc MERLIN To: Matthieu Dalstein Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ability to free space on a full btrfs filesystem Message-ID: <20130825162913.GD1387@merlins.org> References: <521A2F78.908@dalmat.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <521A2F78.908@dalmat.net> Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 06:23:20PM +0200, Matthieu Dalstein wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently experiencing some space issue on btrfs with linux kernel 3.10. > My btrfs partition is full and I fail to remove any data to give some > free space: Did you snapshot your filesystem? If so, delete some/all snapshots first. Then, note that brtfs frees space after you deleted snapshots, it can take one or several minutes before the space ends up being garbage collected. Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/