Hugo Mills to Anton Shepelev: >>While trying to resolve free space problems, and found >>that I cannot interpret the output of: >> >>> btrfs filesystem show >> >>Label: none uuid: 8971ce5b-71d9-4e46-ab25-ca37485784c8 >> Total devices 1 FS bytes used 34.06GiB >> devid 1 size 40.00GiB used 37.82GiB path /dev/sda2 >> >>How come the total used value is less than the value >>listed for the only device? > > "Used" on the device is the mount of space allocated. >"Used" on the FS is the total amount of actual data and >metadata in that allocation. > > You will also need to look at the output of "btrfs fi >df" to see the breakdown of the 37.82 GiB into data, >metadata and currently unused. > >See >https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Understanding_free_space.2C_using_the_original_tools > for the details
Thank you, Hugo, understood. mount/amount is a very fitting typo :-) Does the standard `du' tool work correctly for btfrfs? -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ http://preview.tinyurl.com/qcy6mjc [archived]
