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From: Daniel Lee <longinus00@gmail.com>
To: "Brian J. Murrell" <brian@interlinx.bc.ca>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: filesystem full when it's not?  out of inodes?  huh?
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:52:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4A8D7A.5070605@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jie2b6$nla$1@dough.gmane.org>

On 02/26/2012 11:48 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On 12-02-26 02:37 PM, Daniel Lee wrote:
>> 3.22GB + (896MB * 2) = 5GB
>>
>> There's no mystery here, you're simply out of space.
> Except the mystery that I had to expand the filesystem to something
> between 20GB and 50GB in order to complete the operation, after which I
> could reduce it back down to 5GB.
>
> Cheers,
> b.
>
What's mysterious about that? When you shrink it btrfs is going to throw 
away unused data to cram it all in the requested space and you had empty 
space that was taken up by the metadata allocation. Did you compare 
btrfs fi df after you shrank it with before?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-26 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-26  1:55 filesystem full when it's not? out of inodes? huh? Brian J. Murrell
2012-02-26  2:10 ` Fahrzin Hemmati
2012-02-26  2:16   ` Brian J. Murrell
2012-02-26  2:37     ` Fahrzin Hemmati
2012-02-26  3:57       ` Brian J. Murrell
2012-02-26  4:05         ` Fahrzin Hemmati
2012-03-09 22:02           ` Johannes Hirte
2012-02-26  8:52       ` Duncan
2012-02-26  9:10         ` Helmut Hullen
2012-02-26  9:41           ` Duncan
2012-03-03 10:25         ` Chris Samuel
2012-02-26  5:45   ` Brian J. Murrell
2012-02-26  5:50     ` Fahrzin Hemmati
2012-02-26  6:14     ` Brian J. Murrell
2012-02-26  7:19       ` Jérôme Poulin
2012-02-26 19:43         ` Brian J. Murrell
2012-02-26 11:00   ` Hugo Mills
2012-03-02 11:50     ` Brian J. Murrell
2012-03-02 12:23       ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2012-02-26 19:37 ` Daniel Lee
2012-02-26 19:48   ` Brian J. Murrell
2012-02-26 19:52     ` Daniel Lee [this message]
2012-02-26 20:05       ` Brian J. Murrell
2012-02-26 20:25         ` Daniel Lee

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