Re: Data total size shrinking during btrfs balance

2016-10-09 Thread Jeremy Yoder
Interesting. I've always noticed that value to be fairly close to the total drive size, so I just assumed it was supposed to match. Thanks! Jeremy On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 04:59:04PM -0400, Jeremy Yoder wrote: >> I didn't n

Data total size shrinking during btrfs balance

2016-10-09 Thread Jeremy Yoder
I didn't notice this until it was nearly too late. I had run out of metadata space so I ran btrfs balance start -v -dusage=0 /mnt/btrfsroot That went fine, but I was still low on metadata space, so I tried a few variations: btrfs balance start -v -dusage=1 /mnt/btrfsroot btrfs balance start -v