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hotvic

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Mount 100% Full btrfs partition

I'm trying to mount as rw a btrfs partition which is 100% full.
I'd converted from ext4 to btrfs but the partition had only 1.5GB free. after the conversion the "ext2_saved" subvolume has been fulling the partition and when I try to mount I get "No space left" message.

WorMzy

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Re: Mount 100% Full btrfs partition

Could you post the dmesg entries that are generated upon a failed mount? Can you mount with -o ro?

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hotvic

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Re: Mount 100% Full btrfs partition

WorMzy, I've to boot a live to get the dmesg messages. And yes, I can mount as read-only.

Spider.007

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Re: Mount 100% Full btrfs partition

The ext2-saved actually shouldn't take up any significant space; did you try rolling back the conversion? Also; it'd be nice if you get `btrfs fi df` output from the drive to determine if it's data or metadata that's full (but that only seems to work on mounted devices). Did the conversion complete succesfully btw?

WorMzy

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Re: Mount 100% Full btrfs partition

WorMzy, I've to boot a live to get the dmesg messages. And yes, I can mount as read-only.

That's fine, but please boot one with a recent kernel (the latest Arch live ISO should be fine). Redirect the dmesg output to a file and use a pastebin client to upload it, then post the link here.

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hotvic

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Re: Mount 100% Full btrfs partition

The partition was damaged and probably unrecoverable, so lost all data, doing a full new installtion.

ratcheer

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Re: Mount 100% Full btrfs partition

Sorry I'm too late, but the same thing happened to me. Somehow, I managed to mount it rw well enough (using advice from the btrfs irc channel) to delete the subvolume containing the backed up ext4 partition. Then, I could boot, normally. Next, I defragmented all data and directories. Since then, everything has worked well and the same system is currently my main Arch system; it has been running for months.

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hotvic

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Re: Mount 100% Full btrfs partition

ratcheer, that's the problem, I don't figured out how to delete the subvolume w/o mount it as rw first.

Any way, Thanks!

Spider.007

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Re: Mount 100% Full btrfs partition

btrfs-convert has a rollback option (-r)