Due to bad RAM (now fixed), my (single disk) root partition got corrupted and no longer mounts with "corrupt leaf, bad key order": root@archiso ~ # mount /dev/sdh2 /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdh2, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so. root@archiso ~ # dmesg | grep -i btrfs [ 8.513028] Btrfs loaded, crc32c=crc32c-generic [ 8.513033] BTRFS: selftest: sectorsize: 4096 nodesize: 4096 [ 8.513035] BTRFS: selftest: sectorsize: 4096 nodesize: 8192 [ 8.513037] BTRFS: selftest: sectorsize: 4096 nodesize: 16384 [ 8.513039] BTRFS: selftest: sectorsize: 4096 nodesize: 32768 [ 8.513041] BTRFS: selftest: sectorsize: 4096 nodesize: 65536 [ 8.514927] BTRFS: device label btrfs devid 1 transid 36706 /dev/sdh2 [ 8.515047] BTRFS: device label data01 devid 1 transid 645 /dev/sdg1 [ 546.218691] BTRFS info (device sdh2): disk space caching is enabled [ 546.218697] BTRFS info (device sdh2): has skinny extents [ 546.225228] BTRFS critical (device sdh2): corrupt leaf, bad key order: block=75182981120,root=1, slot=0 [ 546.225303] BTRFS error (device sdh2): failed to recover balance: -5 [ 546.253399] BTRFS: open_ctree failed Trying to repair the FS gets into a loop of two alternating bad blocks but never succeeds: root@archiso ~ # btrfs check --repair /dev/sdh2 enabling repair mode Checking filesystem on /dev/sdh2 UUID: e961bc76-09bb-4616-9263-dab61b8d0ef6 checking extents bad key ordering 0 1 bad block 75182981120 Errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation bad key ordering 0 1 root@archiso ~ # btrfs check --repair /dev/sdh2 enabling repair mode Checking filesystem on /dev/sdh2 UUID: e961bc76-09bb-4616-9263-dab61b8d0ef6 checking extents bad key ordering 0 1 bad block 75183144960 Errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation bad key ordering 0 1 root@archiso ~ # btrfs check --repair /dev/sdh2 enabling repair mode Checking filesystem on /dev/sdh2 UUID: e961bc76-09bb-4616-9263-dab61b8d0ef6 checking extents bad key ordering 0 1 bad block 75182981120 Errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation bad key ordering 0 1 root@archiso ~ # btrfs check --repair /dev/sdh2 enabling repair mode Checking filesystem on /dev/sdh2 UUID: e961bc76-09bb-4616-9263-dab61b8d0ef6 checking extents bad key ordering 0 1 bad block 75183144960 Errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation bad key ordering 0 1 [etc...] According to smartctl, the disk itself (a quite new Samsung SSD) is healthy. This is not a critical machine, but I would prefer to solve this issue over a new install. (I'm quite new to btrfs, though) TIA Heinz