Well, I mounted the volume ro and copied that data to another device. Then I cleaned the junk out and then copied the data back to the original device which I had wiped. Total recovery time 4 hours. Thanks for the hint Hugo, I don't know why it never occurred to me to mount it read only.
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Shawn Dakin <dakins...@staff.nctschools.org> wrote: > Hugo, > Thanks, I had not thought of that. > It does mount fine ro so I can access the files. > Any ideas on getting access to delete a few log files or snapshots so > I can mount the volume rw? > If not I will just copy it off onto another, but that will be time consuming. > > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Hugo Mills <h...@carfax.org.uk> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 03:52:15PM -0400, Shawn Dakin wrote: >>> I have a btrfs volume that will not mount due to "No space on device" >>> I would gladly free up some space if I could only mount the volume. >>> Does anyone have a trick to getting this volume back up and running? >>> Any help would be great!! >> >> Start with a 3.6 kernel (which has lots of ENOSPC fixes in it). Try >> mounting with -o ro, which won't allow you to modify anything but may >> show you if the FS is at least mountable in that state (and will give >> you the capability to copy the data elsewhere in extremis). If you're >> lucky, that mount may then allow you to mount it again without the -o >> ro. >> >> Hugo. >> >> -- >> === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === >> PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk >> --- Great oxymorons of the world, no. 6: Mature Student --- > > > > -- > Shawn Dakin (CNE) > Director of Technology > Newcomerstown Schools > > 659 S. Beaver St. > Newcomerstown Oh, 43832 > Office 740-498-4999 > Cell 740-227-0339 -- Shawn Dakin (CNE) Director of Technology Newcomerstown Schools 659 S. Beaver St. Newcomerstown Oh, 43832 Office 740-498-4999 Cell 740-227-0339 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
