Hallo, Goffredo, Du meintest am 20.01.11:
> To add another disk you don't have to run mkfs.btrfs. For example: > # add the first disk > mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb > # mount the disk > mount /dev/sdb /media/backups > # add another disk to the first one > btrfs device add /dev/sdc /media/backup > Note1: the filesystem has to be mounted > Note2: the medatada will be in raid1, the data in raid0 I've just tried ... creating /dev/sde with 2 TByte adding /dev/sdf with 60 GByte (it's easier to check "ENOSPACE" with such a small device) copying 94 Gbyte and then btrfs filesystem balance /mnt/btr (needed about 40 minutes for 94 GByte) leads to # btrfs filesystem show Label: none uuid: 121ae2ed-f572-43e6-8855-cd66ad534401 Total devices 2 FS bytes used 94.68GB devid 2 size 37.27GB used 37.00GB path /dev/sdf devid 1 size 1.82TB used 63.04GB path /dev/sde Label: 'MM2' uuid: ad7c0668-316c-4a79-ba00-3b505b9d99b4 Total devices 2 FS bytes used 1.15TB devid 1 size 1.81TB used 591.14GB path /dev/sde2 *** Some devices missing Btrfs Btrfs v0.19 # btrfs filesystem df /mnt/btr Data, RAID0: total=4.00GB, used=2.00GB Data: total=94.01GB, used=92.58GB System, DUP: total=8.00MB, used=16.00KB System: total=4.00MB, used=0.00 Metadata, DUP: total=1.00GB, used=111.87MB Metadata: total=8.00MB, used=0.00 # df -t btrfs Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sde btrfs 1992597264 99396500 1891304076 5% /mnt/btr # fdisk -l # btrfs filesystem show Label: none uuid: 121ae2ed-f572-43e6-8855-cd66ad534401 Total devices 2 FS bytes used 93.68GB devid 2 size 37.27GB used 36.12GB path /dev/sdf devid 1 size 1.82TB used 93.16GB path /dev/sde Label: 'MM2' uuid: ad7c0668-316c-4a79-ba00-3b505b9d99b4 Total devices 2 FS bytes used 1.15TB devid 1 size 1.81TB used 591.14GB path /dev/sde2 *** Some devices missing Btrfs Btrfs v0.19 # btrfs filesystem df /mnt/btr Data, RAID0: total=64.00GB, used=31.90GB Data: total=63.01GB, used=61.67GB System, DUP: total=8.00MB, used=20.00KB System: total=4.00MB, used=0.00 Metadata, RAID1: total=128.00MB, used=104.71MB Metadata, DUP: total=1.00GB, used=6.15MB Metadata: total=8.00MB, used=0.00 # df -t btrfs Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sde btrfs 1992597264 98348716 1892087652 5% /mnt/btr # ----------------------------------------- Look especially to "btrfs filesystem df /mnt/btr", it shows Data, RAID0: total=64.00GB, used=31.90GB Data: total=63.01GB, used=61.67GB and that will lead to "no space left on device ...". Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- 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