Hi, I've hit a problem with a BTRFS filesystem I have on my main machine. It's gone into read-only mode, I suspect because it ran out of disk space when doing a rebalance (it's got v little space left). Looking at the logs I see the following for BTRFS:
Nov 15 09:09:35 selket kernel: BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -28) Nov 15 09:09:35 selket kernel: BTRFS: error (device dm-1: state A) in btrfs_finish_ordered_io:3315: errno=-28 No space left Nov 15 09:09:35 selket kernel: BTRFS info (device dm-1: state EA): forced readonly Ironically I was going to shift a large chunk of data off this filesystem onto an external backup disk but hadn't gotten around to doing it. Digging around on the web I've seen suggestions involving unmounting the filesystem, remounting it R/W, removing any unwanted data, then continuing the rebalance. They generally seem to want to add another disk temporarily as well. I don't really want to go to the trouble of temporarily adding a secondary disk only to then remove it again. As I was already planning on moving a bunch of old data off to external backup, I'm wondering if the following would be safe to do: 1) Unmount the filesystem. 2) Remount it as R/W 3) Move data to the external disk 4) Resume the rebalance operation (is this required?) Does that look reasonable? Is there likely to be any problem with moving files off the filesystem when the rebalance operation failed? Thanks for you attention, Spencer
