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From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: Matthieu Dalstein <matthieu.dalstein@dalmat.net>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ability to free space on a full btrfs filesystem
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 09:29:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130825162913.GD1387@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <521A2F78.908@dalmat.net>

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
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-25 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-25 16:23 Ability to free space on a full btrfs filesystem Matthieu Dalstein
2013-08-25 16:29 ` Marc MERLIN [this message]
2013-08-25 19:29 ` Chris Murphy
2013-08-26 21:43   ` Matthieu Dalstein
2013-08-27  0:16     ` Chris Murphy

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