Btrfs balance crashed now no free space on disk

[BluishHumility]

My guess would be the metadata usage got jacked up so high from all the hacking around you did on this new drive in this thread and this thread. Instead of just copying the files over in a normal manner there was a lot of…experimentation.

For example:

@zany130

I did a fresh install of garuda linux on a new disk but I want to transfer my @home volume from my old disk. As well as installed packages (pacman, aur, flatpak)

@zany130

I at first tried to just do a cp -r but the problem is I have some files under my old home that our not owned by my user such as waydroid files.

So I think it would be better to just clone the whole @home from my old disk to the new one.

@zany130

but I couldn’t get it to work. the furthest I got was the second step of sending the snapshot of the @home volume to my new disk but it just hangs there and then eventualy black screens

@zany130

rom what I have been reading I can’t just dd either as that would clone my whole btrfs partition not just the @home volume. I don’t want to do this because the root volume of my btrfs partition is messed up and unboottable so I would just end up with the same broken install on my new disk

@zany130

hmm my issue seems to be that im running out of space on my new disk when sending the snapshot to my new disk… Don’t know why I should have enough free space on my new disk

@zany130

what I want to do is create a readonly snapshot of my broken install’s @home

then send it somewhere on my new disk.

then create a writable snapshot of that snapshot at /home/

@zany130

I had part of my old home on my new disk so it was prob running out of space because of that (i thought the snapshot would be compressed and not be the whole size)

@zany130

no left overs from my previous cp -r /mnt/broken/@home/zany130 /home/

the thing is I have some steam games there so the whole home folder is like 800GB

I don’t think the filesystem is the issue.

If you do a reinstall and just copy your stuff over with cp -a or rsync -a instead of all the tomfoolery with snapshots, subvolumes, partition cloning, etc my guess is you will have all your stuff but the metadata will remain modestly sized.