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Could not find enough space to create new chunk. Try clearing a few gigabytes of space, or defragging. #70

Open solarisfire opened 1 year ago

solarisfire commented 1 year ago

Yes it's a 2TB drive that's 91% full, but is 174G not enough space to do an "in place" conversion in??

/dev/sdc2 1.9T 1.7T 174G 91% /media/ssd1

And could it not throw this error before it sits there for almost an hour calculating checksums?

maharmstone commented 1 year ago

It needs contiguous space - I'm guessing you've got lots of part-allocated chunks. What does btrfs fi usage say?

Edit: Disregard that, I was getting confused. Have you got a lot of compressed files?

solarisfire commented 1 year ago

No, the drive isn't compressed at all... It contains a lot of Steam Games, and some Windows Apps that I really don't care about...

RayJW commented 1 year ago

Were you able to resolve this? I ran into the same issue on a 4 TB drive with over 500 GB of free space, I think that should be enough to convert the drive, no?

cpanceac commented 11 months ago

See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238054. Not sure what is the right answer but for a EXT4 to BTRFS conversion 4% of free space was enough. So, for my 500 GB NTFS partition i'll try 20 GB. Once the next test is completed i'll report back. ETA tomorrow evening :)

maharmstone commented 11 months ago

There's really no point in logging it with Red Hat, all they're going to do is send it back to me...

cpanceac commented 11 months ago

Thank you, new issue created: https://github.com/maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs/issues/72

cpanceac commented 11 months ago

To all interested parties: to me 4% free space was enough to complete the conversion. But maybe it depends on the type of files stored or other things.