Balance of Raid1 pool, does not balance properly.

Hello. I have a Raid1 pool consisting of 6 drives, 3 3TB disks and 3 2TB disks. Until yesterday it consisted of 3 2TB disks, 2 3TB disks and one 1TB disk. I replaced the 1TB disk as the pool was close to full. Replacement went well, and I ended up with 5 almost full disks, and 1 3TB disk that

Re: Balance of Raid1 pool, does not balance properly.

Just a short answer. I didn't use the replace command. I added the new drive to the pool / array, and checked that it was registered. Following that I removed the 1TB drive with "btrfs device delete ". As far as I know this should avoid the need to resize the new drive. "btrfs fi us" shows a

Re: Balance of Raid1 pool, does not balance properly.

Thanks for the answer. I had already tried " btrfs balance start -musage=75 -dusage=75 /mnt It only reallocated 3 blocks. But after I had moved some data, I ran it with 90, and it realocated a lot more. I have a new balance running, and this time it seems to be doing its job. At least data i

Re: Balance of Raid1 pool, does not balance properly.

Thanks for all your suggestions. I will save your instructions for future reference and use. The current complete balance is 90% done, and the data are now perfectly evenly distributed across the drives. Vielen danke für deine hilfe :)