From: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: Patrik Lundquist <patrik.lundquist@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BTRFS free space handling still needs more work: Hangs again
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:14:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2759982.e9GFAp0UsT@merkaba> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA7pwKM7Dz-c4G3WtbOKR0CB2Ys-G5dPx2+L2=Y=uOK=yY9hug@mail.gmail.com>
Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2014, 18:04:31 schrieb Patrik Lundquist:
> On 28 December 2014 at 13:03, Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> >
> > BTW, I found that the Oracle blog didn´t work at all for me. I completed
> > a cycle of defrag, sdelete -c and VBoxManage compact, [...] and it
> > apparently did *nothing* to reduce the size of the file.
>
> They've changed the argument to -z; sdelete -z.
Now how cute is that. Thank you. This did the trick:
martin@merkaba:~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks> VBoxManage modifyhd Winlala.vdi --compact
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
martin@merkaba:~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks> ls -lh
insgesamt 12G
-rw------- 1 martin martin 12G Dez 29 11:00 Winlala.vdi
martin@merkaba:~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks>
It has been 20 GiB before.
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-26 13:37 BTRFS free space handling still needs more work: Hangs again Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-26 14:20 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-26 14:41 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 3:33 ` Duncan
2014-12-26 15:59 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 4:26 ` Duncan
2014-12-26 22:48 ` Robert White
2014-12-27 5:54 ` Duncan
2014-12-27 9:01 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 9:30 ` Hugo Mills
2014-12-27 10:54 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 11:52 ` Robert White
2014-12-27 13:16 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 13:49 ` Robert White
2014-12-27 14:06 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 14:00 ` Robert White
2014-12-27 14:14 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 14:21 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 15:14 ` Robert White
2014-12-27 16:01 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-28 0:25 ` Robert White
2014-12-28 1:01 ` Bardur Arantsson
2014-12-28 4:03 ` Robert White
2014-12-28 12:03 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-28 17:04 ` Patrik Lundquist
2014-12-29 10:14 ` Martin Steigerwald [this message]
2014-12-28 12:07 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-28 14:52 ` Robert White
2014-12-28 15:42 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-28 15:47 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-29 0:27 ` Robert White
2014-12-29 9:14 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 16:10 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 14:19 ` Robert White
2014-12-27 11:11 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 12:08 ` Robert White
2014-12-27 13:55 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 14:54 ` Robert White
2014-12-27 16:26 ` Hugo Mills
2014-12-27 17:11 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 17:59 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-28 0:06 ` Robert White
2014-12-28 11:05 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-28 13:00 ` BTRFS free space handling still needs more work: Hangs again (further tests) Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-28 13:40 ` BTRFS free space handling still needs more work: Hangs again (further tests, as close as I dare) Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-28 13:56 ` BTRFS free space handling still needs more work: Hangs again (further tests, as close as I dare, current idea) Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-28 15:00 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-29 9:25 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-27 18:28 ` BTRFS free space handling still needs more work: Hangs again Zygo Blaxell
2014-12-27 18:40 ` Hugo Mills
2014-12-27 19:23 ` BTRFS free space handling still needs more work: Hangs again (no complete lockups, "just" tasks stuck for some time) Martin Steigerwald
2014-12-29 2:07 ` Zygo Blaxell
2014-12-29 9:32 ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-01-06 20:03 ` Zygo Blaxell
2015-01-07 19:08 ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-01-07 21:41 ` Zygo Blaxell
2015-01-08 5:45 ` Duncan
2015-01-08 10:18 ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-01-09 8:25 ` Duncan
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