On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 10:54:47AM -0500, Kyle Gates wrote:
> > So I have ended up in a state where I can't delete files with rm.
> >
> > the error I get is no space on device. however I'm not even close to empty.
> > /dev/sdb1 38G 27G 9.5G 75%
> > there is about 800k files/dirs in this filesystem
> >
> > extra strange is that I can in another directory create and delete files.
> >
> > So I tried pretty much all I could google my way to but problem
> > persisted. So I decided to do a backup and a format. But when the backup
> > was done I tried one more time and now it was possible to delete the
> > directory and all content?
> >
> > using the 3.5 kernel in ubuntu 12.10. Is this a known issue ? is it
> > fixed in later kernels?
> >
> > fsck /btrfs scrub and kernel log. nothing indicate any problem of any kind.
> >
> 
> First let's see the output of:
> btrfs fi df /mountpoint
> 
> You're probably way over allocated in metadata so a balance should help:
> btrfs bal start -m /mountpoint
> or omit the -m option to run a full balance.

   Or, better, -musage=5 (or 1), which will do even less work.

... but let's see the btrfs fi df output first. Could you also add the
output of "btrfs fi show" (no parameters), please?

   Hugo.

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