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Explore Stack InternalOne possible cause of more btrfs space being allocated for data than there is visible data is unreachable parts of extents (data in extents containing older versions of file content which has since been overwritten).
To analyze programsproblems like this, I created btdu, a disk usage profiler for btrfs:
https://github.com/CyberShadow/btdu
The tool will identify the true cause for the discrepancy.
One possible cause of more btrfs space being allocated for data than there is visible data is unreachable parts of extents (data in extents containing older versions of file content which has since been overwritten).
To analyze programs like this, I created btdu, a disk usage profiler for btrfs:
https://github.com/CyberShadow/btdu
The tool will identify the true cause for the discrepancy.
One possible cause of more btrfs space being allocated for data than there is visible data is unreachable parts of extents (data in extents containing older versions of file content which has since been overwritten).
To analyze problems like this, I created btdu, a disk usage profiler for btrfs:
https://github.com/CyberShadow/btdu
The tool will identify the true cause for the discrepancy.
One possible cause of more btrfs space being allocated for data than there is visible data is unreachable parts of extents (data in extents containing older versions of file content which has since been overwritten).
To analyze programs like this, I created btdu, a disk usage profiler for btrfs:
https://github.com/CyberShadow/btdu
The tool will identify the true cause for the discrepancy.
