Re: Free space left

Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-01-16T20:01:23Z

On Saturday 16 January 2010, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> kreijack@gmail.com (Goffredo Baroncelli) writes:
> > Try btrfs-show
> > [...]
>
> How do you read this then:
>
> Label: none uuid: 27fafa43-7ad0-4e8a-ada8-36f73ef8984c
> Total devices 2 FS bytes used 79.63GB
> devid 2 size 111.79GB used 111.01GB path /dev/sdb
> devid 1 size 111.79GB used 111.03GB path /dev/sda
>
> I'm pretty sure I created this fs with -d raid1 -m raid1! Speaking
> of which, is there a way to read a FS configuration: how can I tell
> this FS really uses raid1 for both data and metadata?

Even tough the raid mode is set per filesystem, btrfs has (will have) the
capability to set the raid level per file. So it is no simple to estimate the
free space: if every file is raid1 the real free space is half of the physical
free space. But if some file are in raid1 (for examples /etc) and others are
in raid0 (for example the ones under /usr which may be re-downloaded) the used
space and the free space are difficult to estimate.

There are some efforts to fix this kind of situation (see the thread "[PATCH]
Btrfs-progs: add btrfsctl -i to print space info").

> The used column is surprising: if it's a mirror why 111.01 and
> 111.03? And why all the space is being used anyway: I mean what's
> the difference between the 79.63GB and 111.0[13]?
>
> And the output of df is confusing too:
> /dev/sdb 234441648 83501968 150939680 36% /space
>
> It's reporting twice the total space but I think I remember looking
> it up and that should be fixed in a future kernel version.
> --
> Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer mchouque@free.fr
> The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.
> -- William Shakespeare --
>

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