I was running Lubuntu 14.04 on btrfs with lzo compresssion on, with the following partition scheme:
sda5 232M /boot sda6 16G / sda7 104G /home (sda5 is ext4) I did 2 distribution upgrades, one after the other, to 15.04, then 15.10, since the upgrade utility would not go directly to the latest version. This process did a whole lot of reading and writing to the root volume of course. Everything seems to be working, except most of the free space I had on sda6 is gone. Was using about 4G, now df reports that the usage is 12G. At first, I thought Lubuntu had not removed old files, but I can't find anything old left behind. I began to suspect btrfs, and checking, find that du shows only 4G used on sda6. Where'd the other 8G go? "btrfs fi df /" reports the following: Data, single: total=11.01GiB, used=10.58GiB System, DUP: total=8.00MiB, used=16.00KiB System, single: total=4.00MiB, used=0.00B Metadata, DUP: total=1.00GiB, used=397.80MiB Metadata, single: total=8.00MiB, used=0.00B GlobalReserve, single: total=144.00MiB, used=0.00B "btrfs filesystem show /" gives: Label: none uuid: 4ea4ac08-ff37-4b51-b1a3-d8b21fd43ddd Total devices 1 FS bytes used 10.97GiB devid 1 size 15.02GiB used 13.04GiB path /dev/sda6 btrfs-progs v4.0 "du --max-depth=1 -h -x" on / shows: 29M ./etc 0 ./media 16M ./bin 354M ./lib 4.0K ./lib64 0 ./mnt 160K ./root 12M ./sbin 0 ./srv 4.0K ./tmp 3.1G ./usr 442M ./var 0 ./cdrom 3.8M ./lib32 3.9G . And of course df: /dev/sda6 16G 12G 2.5G 83% / /dev/sda5 232M 53M 163M 25% /boot /dev/sda7 104G 46G 57G 45% /home And mount: mount |grep sda /dev/sda6 on / type btrfs (rw,relatime,compress=lzo,space_cache,subvolid=257,subvol=/@) /dev/sda5 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) /dev/sda7 on /home type btrfs (rw,relatime,compress=lzo,space_cache,subvolid=257,subvol=/@home) uname -a Linux ichor 4.2.0-18-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 18:25:50 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I can live with the situation, but recovering that space would be nice. -- http://brentonchapin.no-ip.biz -- 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