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From: Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>
To: Brendan Hide <brendan@swiftspirit.co.za>
Cc: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please review and comment, dealing with btrfs full issues
Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 14:36:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1399314969.4155.1.camel@sasami> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5367C551.6020604@swiftspirit.co.za>

On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 19:07 +0200, Brendan Hide wrote:
> On 05/05/14 14:16, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > I've just written this new page:
> > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/btrfs/post_2014-05-04_Fixing-Btrfs-Filesystem-Full-Problems.html
> >
> > First, are there problems in it?
> >
> > Second, are there other FS full issues I should mention in it?
> >

> The issue I'm not sure of how to get through is if you can't balance 
> *because* of ENOSPC errors. I'd probably start scouring the mailing list 
> archives if I ever come across that.

The standard response on the mailing list for this issue is to
temporarily add an additional device to the filesystem (even e.g. a 4GB
USB flash drive is often enough) - this will add space to allocate a few
new chunks, allowing the balance to proceed. You can remove the extra
device after the balance completes.

-- 
Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-05 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-05 12:16 Please review and comment, dealing with btrfs full issues Marc MERLIN
2014-05-05 17:07 ` Brendan Hide
2014-05-05 17:09   ` Brendan Hide
2014-05-05 18:36   ` Calvin Walton [this message]
2014-05-06  4:41     ` Russell Coker
2014-05-06 12:19   ` Marc MERLIN
2014-05-06 16:30     ` Brendan Hide
2014-05-06 16:43       ` Hugo Mills
2014-05-07 14:09         ` David Sterba
2014-05-07 14:23           ` Smallest-n balance filter (was Re: Please review and comment, dealing with btrfs full issues) Hugo Mills
2014-05-07 14:50             ` David Sterba
2014-05-06 21:20       ` Please review and comment, dealing with btrfs full issues Duncan
2014-05-06 21:43   ` Duncan

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