I should have plenty of space for this operation, but it fails.... cartman {~} root# btrfs filesystem df / Data, RAID1: total=7.59GiB, used=7.00GiB System, RAID1: total=32.00MiB, used=4.00KiB Metadata, RAID1: total=1.00GiB, used=438.45MiB unknown, single: total=148.00MiB, used=0.00 Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/disk/by-uuid/d71404d4-468e-47d5-8f06-3b65fa7776aa btrfs 19G 15G 3.1G 84% / cartman {~} root# btrfs fi show Label: 'Root' uuid: d71404d4-468e-47d5-8f06-3b65fa7776aa Total devices 2 FS bytes used 7.43GiB devid 1 size 9.31GiB used 8.06GiB path /dev/disk/by-uuid/d71404d4-468e-47d5-8f06-3b65fa7776aa devid 3 size 9.31GiB used 8.06GiB path /dev/sdd6 Label: 'Storage' uuid: 179749c1-1bfb-4f28-9c69-72126c96cdef Total devices 8 FS bytes used 1.83TiB devid 1 size 149.05GiB used 149.04GiB path /dev/sde devid 2 size 149.05GiB used 149.05GiB path /dev/sdh devid 3 size 465.76GiB used 465.76GiB path /dev/sdc devid 4 size 465.76GiB used 461.70GiB path /dev/sdf devid 5 size 465.76GiB used 461.00GiB path /dev/sda devid 6 size 465.76GiB used 461.00GiB path /dev/sdb devid 7 size 920.34GiB used 843.00GiB path /dev/sdg7 devid 9 size 1.81TiB used 755.00GiB path /dev/sdd7 Btrfs v3.16 cartman {~} root# btrfs balance start / ERROR: error during balancing '/' - No space left on device There may be more info in syslog - try dmesg | tail Sep 13 16:35:42 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): found 33544 extents Sep 13 16:35:51 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): found 33541 extents Sep 13 16:35:52 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): relocating block group 80153214976 flags 18 Sep 13 16:35:53 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): found 1 extents Sep 13 16:35:54 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): relocating block group 79680700416 flags 17 Sep 13 16:36:03 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): found 32545 extents Sep 13 16:36:09 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): found 32545 extents Sep 13 16:36:10 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): relocating block group 79412264960 flags 20 Sep 13 16:36:12 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): found 1114 extents Sep 13 16:36:13 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): relocating block group 79143829504 flags 20 Sep 13 16:36:37 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): found 59076 extents Sep 13 16:36:38 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): relocating block group 78875394048 flags 20 Sep 13 16:37:01 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): found 59268 extents Sep 13 16:37:02 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sdg6): 6 enospc errors during balance -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html