Comment by Trizt
There is an issue with the Jolla btrfs, it do not support the cancel command, sometimes a reboot may get you to the next chunk. Sometimes I have noticed that a -musage balance makes that the -dusage...
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Problems are only with MTP (seems that is subjective as not all have the same issues) and backup. For both you simply stop android-support and stop the mount/service for the sdcard...
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Yes, I'll do it. The problem is now how to manage the sdcard to have it running for both jolla and the android environment: I've seen your guide regarding this issue and I know that there are problems...
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@pkz make sure you do not fill up the internal storage again, get a 32gb (or 64gb) uSD and put everything you can there, we all hope that in the future we do not need to rely on doing such stuff our...
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well, zeroing the file length (true > /path/of/the/file), rebooting (dsmetool -b), deleting (with rm), and then rebooting again solved the problem: the balance finished in an hour... Thank you all...
View ArticleComment by vitaminj
I had the exact problem you're having, and posted about it in the [main thread](https://together.jolla.com/question/30822/root-and-home-disks-full-and-causing-various-problems/). Was able to gradually...
View ArticleComment by pkz
...and after reboot, I was able to effectively delete the files. Balancing is continuing, let's see...
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ok, the command "true > ..." zeroed the length of my files. I don't know if it is enough: in fact with "ls -l" i can see a length of 0, but "du -s ." shows a length still very high
View ArticleComment by pkz
sorry, but I can't remove any file: "no free space left on the device"! the problem arise with both "rm ...." and with "echo >...."
View ArticleComment by chemist
Your balancing does take ages as there is no space left to balance with so the more free space you have the less you need to balance and it is getting faster as it can move larger chunks at once
View ArticleComment by pkz
Dear chemist, thanks again. At the moment there are 2 GB free. I can try to delete other files. How can I trigger a "safe" reboot? Can I use the simple reboot command?
View ArticleComment by chemist
Delete some bigger files...(delete at least 2GB) balancing task usually survives reboots... might be that it does not even shutdown though :/ but you might delete some files and try to reboot
View ArticleComment by pkz
Thanks, the problem is that I cannot stop the actual balancing. With the command "btrfs balance status /" I can see Balance on '/' is running, cancel requested 1 out of about 16 chunks balanced (20...
View ArticleAnswer by chemist for btrfs balancing is running for 5 days
D state is un-interruptible sleep - means it is waiting for something to complete... I guess your device was not really unbalanced (or not much) if the *-dusage* did not help your cause, so your device...
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Dear all, I have the problem with the btrfs that leads to continuous reboots. I followed the instructions in the thread regarding btrfs full in home and root that needs balancing. I tried with the...
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