From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.virtall.com ([178.63.195.102]:57728 "EHLO mail.virtall.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754693Ab3LROyu (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:54:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 23:54:39 +0900 From: Tomasz Chmielewski To: Hugo Mills Cc: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: no space left, metadata usage almost full? Message-ID: <20131218235439.480170e0@virtall.com> In-Reply-To: <20131218124652.GL11281@carfax.org.uk> References: <20131218213728.07d47dd5@virtall.com> <20131218124652.GL11281@carfax.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:46:52 +0000 Hugo Mills wrote: > > # btrfs fi df /home > > Data, RAID1: total=2.51TiB, used=1.58TiB > > System, RAID1: total=32.00MiB, used=372.00KiB > > Metadata, RAID1: total=48.00GiB, used=47.23GiB > > # btrfs fi balance start -dusage=5 /home > Currently, yes, it is the only approach. > Hope the above helps, So the balance finished, and metadata is still almost full: # btrfs fi df /home Data, RAID1: total=1.60TiB, used=1.58TiB System, RAID1: total=32.00MiB, used=248.00KiB Metadata, RAID1: total=49.00GiB, used=47.24GiB Confused about the output - does it actually look any better? # btrfs fi show /home Label: crawler-btrfs uuid: 60f1759c-45f6-4484-9f60-66a4e9bbf2b6 Total devices 2 FS bytes used 1.63TiB devid 3 size 2.56TiB used 1.66TiB path /dev/sdb4 devid 4 size 2.56TiB used 1.66TiB path /dev/sda4 Btrfs v3.12 Does it mean that data/system/metadata will be able to grow now, until their size in total in 2.56TiB? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org