On 12-02-25 09:10 PM, Fahrzin Hemmati wrote: > btrfs is horrible for small filesystems (like a 5GB drive). df -h says > you have 967MB available, but btrfs (at least by default) allocates 1GB > at a time to data/metadata. This means that your 10MB file is too big > for the current allocation and requires a new data chunk, or another > 1GB, which you don't have.
So increasing the size of the filesystem should suffice then? How much bigger? 10G? Nope. still not big enough: # lvextend -L+1G /dev/rootvol/mint_usr; btrfs fi resize max /usr; df -h /usr Extending logical volume mint_usr to 10.00 GiB Logical volume mint_usr successfully resized Resize '/usr' of 'max' Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/rootvol-mint_usr 10G 2.8G 6.0G 32% /usr test ~ # apt-get install -y -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 264 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/851 kB of archives. After this operation, 10.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 180246 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic (from .../linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic_3.0.0-16.28_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic_3.0.0-16.28_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to install new version of `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic/include/config/dvb/usb.h': No space left on device 20G maybe? Nope: # lvextend -L20G /dev/rootvol/mint_usr; btrfs fi resize max /usr; df -h /usr Extending logical volume mint_usr to 20.00 GiB Logical volume mint_usr successfully resized Resize '/usr' of 'max' Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/rootvol-mint_usr 20G 2.8G 16G 15% /usr test ~ # apt-get install -y -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 264 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/851 kB of archives. After this operation, 10.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 180246 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic (from .../linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic_3.0.0-16.28_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic_3.0.0-16.28_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to install new version of `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic/include/config/ncpfs/packet/signing.h': No space left on device Maybe 50G? Yup: # apt-get install -y -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 264 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/851 kB of archives. After this operation, 10.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 180246 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic (from .../linux-headers-3.0.0-16-generic_3.0.0-16.28_i386.deb) ... Setting up linux-image-3.0.0-16-generic (3.0.0-16.28) ... ... # df -h /usr Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/rootvol-mint_usr 50G 2.8G 43G 7% /usr So I guess I need a 50G btrfs filesystem for 2.8G worth of data? Does that really seem right? I suppose to be fair it could have been some other value between 20G and 50G since I didn't test values in between. So still, I need some amount more than 20G of space to store 2.8G of data? Surely there is something going on here other than just btrfs sucks for small filesystems. b.
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