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joe_schmo
Oct 13, 2016Tutor
Running defrag, losing 1GB a minute
I am running defrag for the first time in a while... and my free space is dropping like crazy. Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on 30T 28T 632G 98% /data When this started, I had over 1TB o...
mdgm-ntgr
Oct 17, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
A balance will move around both data and metadata. You'd expect some space to be returned to unallocated space from both of these.
joe_schmo
Oct 19, 2016Tutor
Awesome. Final question... it appears that this is progressing at 1% per day. Any way to speed it up? Will freeing even more space make it go faster? btrfs balance status -v /data Balance on '/data' is running 1527 out of about 29508 chunks balanced (1528 considered), 95% left Dumping filters: flags 0x7, state 0x1, force is off DATA (flags 0x0): balancing METADATA (flags 0x0): balancing SYSTEM (flags 0x0): balancing
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