Thanks, Roman, you got me back on Track! I am new to btrfs so I was assuming RAID0 means there is no need for equally sized disks.
After `btrfs balance start -dconvert=single -dlimit=10 /' output of `btrfs filesystem usage /' now shows: Overall: Device size: 579.51GiB Device allocated: 126.99GiB Device unallocated: 452.52GiB Device missing: 0.00B Used: 125.42GiB Free (estimated): 452.72GiB (min: 226.46GiB) Data ratio: 1.00 Metadata ratio: 2.00 Global reserve: 24.05MiB (used: 0.00B) Data,single: Size:19.00GiB, Used:18.98GiB /dev/sdd 19.00GiB Data,RAID0: Size:105.97GiB, Used:105.79GiB /dev/sdb2 36.99GiB /dev/sdc 31.99GiB /dev/sdd 36.99GiB Metadata,RAID1: Size:1.00GiB, Used:333.61MiB /dev/sdb2 1.00GiB /dev/sdd 1.00GiB System,RAID1: Size:8.00MiB, Used:16.00KiB /dev/sdc 8.00MiB /dev/sdd 8.00MiB Unallocated: /dev/sdb2 9.52GiB /dev/sdc 1.00MiB /dev/sdd 443.00GiB And finally: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 3.9G 8.0K 3.9G 1% /dev tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 3.9G 17M 3.9G 1% /run tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sdb2 580G 126G 20G 87% / /dev/sdb2 580G 126G 20G 87% /.snapshots /dev/sdb2 580G 126G 20G 87% /usr/local /dev/sdb2 580G 126G 20G 87% /opt /dev/sdb2 580G 126G 20G 87% /root /dev/sdb2 580G 126G 20G 87% /boot/grub2/i386-pc /dev/sdb2 580G 126G 20G 87% /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi /dev/sdb2 580G 126G 20G 87% /srv /dev/sdb2 580G 126G 20G 87% /var /dev/sdb2 580G 126G 20G 87% /tmp /dev/sdb2 580G 126G 20G 87% /home /dev/sdb2 580G 126G 20G 87% /var/cache /dev/sdb1 500M 5.3M 495M 2% /boot/efi tmpfs 796M 0 796M 0% /run/user/0 Thanks a lot! I will now read further documentation regarding "btrfs single vs RAID*" to understand exactly why and how and also convert remaining space to single (it's just a test system). Thanks a lot! BR, Heiner
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