On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Hans van Kranenburg
<hans.van.kranenb...@mendix.com> wrote:
> You can work around it by either adding two disks (like Henk said), or by
> temporarily converting some chunks to single. Just enough to get some free
> space on the first two disks to get a balance going that can fill the third
> one. You don't have to convert all of your data or metadata to single!
>
> Something like:
>
> btrfs balance start -v -dconvert=single,limit=10 /mnt/xxx/

Unfortunately it fails even if I set limit=1:
>$ sudo btrfs balance start -v -dconvert=single,limit=1 /mnt/xxx/
>Dumping filters: flags 0x1, state 0x0, force is off
>  DATA (flags 0x120): converting, target=281474976710656, soft is off, limit=1
>ERROR: error during balancing '/mnt/xxx/': No space left on device
>There may be more info in syslog - try dmesg | tail

//wbr ojab
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