Re: partition reporting full, but not

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Tue 20 Feb 2024 at 17:14:41 (+0000), debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Keith Bainbridge composed on 2024-02-20 17:45 (UTC+1100):
> > 
> > > I just removed 3 snapshots from my daily driver with no change in
> > > used space reported by df  
> > 
> > df doesn't know how to calculate freespace on btrfs. You need to be
> > typing
> > 
> > 	btrfs filesystem df
> 
> df [options] <path>
>            Show a terse summary information about allocation of block
>            group types of a given mount point. The original purpose of
>            this command was a debugging helper. The output needs to be
>            further interpreted and is not suitable for quick overview.
> 
> 
> FWIW my root filesystem is btrfs and I use the normal df command all the
> time without a problem. I've never used btrfs filesystem df

Would it matter if you're not running your filesystem close to full?

Cheers,
David.