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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 22:50:11 +0900
From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
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Subject: Re: how to run balance successfully (No space left on device)?
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On 2017-09-18 22:44, Peter Becker wrote:
> i'm not sure if it would help, but maybe you could try adding an 8GB
> (or more) USB flash drive to the pool and try to start balance.
> if it works out, you can throw him out of the pool after that.

I really can't, it's an "online server".

But I've removed some 65 GB data, so now it's 171 GB free, or, 60% used 
filesystem.

The balance still fails.


Tomasz Chmielewski
https://lxadm.com