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 -- 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