On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 11:50:50AM +0200, Alejandro Vargas wrote:
> I am using a 2Tb disk for incremental backups.
> 
> I use rsync for backing up to a subvolume, and each day I creates an snapshot 
> of the lastest snapshot and do rsync in this.
> 
> When the disk becomes nearly full (100Gb or less available) I deletes the 
> oldest subvolume (withbtrfs subvolume delete).
> 
> My problem is that *even removing ALL the subvolumes*, the free space does
> not change. It continues reporting the same size (disk is nearly full).
> 
> I tried "btrfs balance start /mnt/backup" but it takes hours and hours.
> 
> I'm using linux 4.1.15
> btrfs-progs v4.1.2

   Can you show us the output of both "sudo btrfs fi show" and "btrfs
fi df /mnt/backup", please?

   Hugo.

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