[SOLVED]could not lock database No space left on the device

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Hey can someone help me? I messed up and now I can't boot my Linux
I am now in chroot but I'm getting this error

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lsblk -o name,fsavail

what does it say

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One sec

Name my name?

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This shows
lsbk: unknown column: fsvail

[waxen kernel]

Might be free

lsblk -o name,free

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Name of a device

Like nvme0n1p6

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Ohh my bad

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Your also missing the dash before the o

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😞kind of sleepy pretty late

Unknown column

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Well your system is still working for now come back in the morning. Probably get some more experienced people in

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Hmmm alright

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did you try typing it in correctly

lmao

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nope

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Yea yea he explained it

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again, the command is lsblk -o name,fsavail

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so did it work

free might be a thing but i cant check

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Shows the same

Unknown column

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weird

lsblk -f then?

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That works

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dude where are you getting nvme0n1p6 from

thats why it errored

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Wait then what do I use

that's the name of the device right

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bestie -o means the output columns to specify not the info its going to spit out

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i mean yeah

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… the command i sent?

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💀sorry mb

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hm

huh, 4.6?

thats pretty weird

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My Linux partition is 30gb

I always had free space around that

Pacman used to work

My last command before this was syu

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fsavail: available space left on the file system

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Ohhh okok

Then why does it say not enough space

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im not sure

what if you lock it manually though

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Also I tried this as well

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sudo touch /var/lib/pacman/db.lck

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Cannot touch

No space left on device

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you chrooted in rn?

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Yes

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btrfs fi us /

show me

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i rember seeing something like this

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do a balance

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Balance?

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btrfs balance

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btrfs balance start -musage=70 -dusage=90 /

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actually
it looks fine

but eh a balance wouldnt hurt

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O so I don't use it?

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also
it hink it's a quota problem actually

do you have quota on?

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Is there a space between 70 and -

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Not sure what you mean

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#1047227590097764402 message

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btrfs qgroup show /

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try df -Hi too

might be inodes

idk

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also you can clear some space up by running paru -Scc

or yay, or pacman if you dont have it

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try this.

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Pacman doesn't work

Paru is not working as well

Yay not found even though I had it

When I first entered chroot

Pacman was working

I did -Syu

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have you done a balance yet?

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yes

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It showed not enough space so i tried -Sc and -Scc as well which also worked

But next i tried Linux zen it showed that

Not enough space

Wait let me

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btrfs balance start --full-balance /

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Same error

damn i think i have messed up bad

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rm -r .cache/paru/*

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do you still have enough space
like atleast 5 more gb to extend that filesystem into

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gtg

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No such file or directory

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cus we really need to balance that metadata

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better to do this than screw everything up

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Don't think i had paru

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I don't think so

I legit have nothing installed

Just 1 game which is like 2 3 gb

Idk what's taking up the space

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parted /dev/nvme0n1 -s unit gib print free

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This does

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shows free spaces in /dev/nvme0n1

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Invalid token

Grib

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?

gib
not grib

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F

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💀why

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cant extend

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Mmm

How much more space do i need

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atleast enough for a block group to get allocated

so maybe around 250MiB-1GiB

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Wait let me see if I can yeet something

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no
you dont have to delete stuff
since it wont work anyways
we need space where block groups arent allocated there yet

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Oh

I was thinking of deleting steam it's around 2 gigs

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So like i need 1gb of unallocated space

I could load windows and make my partition smaller

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i would ask you to delete nvme0n1p4 but that's where winrecovery resides

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that wont work
it has to be next to it to be able to extend

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Hmm

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other wise youll have to move partitions
which is risky and is very bad when you get a powercut

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Laptop

Hmm

Will u be around in 7 8 hours

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nah
i would be sleepin

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What's the time thete

There

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6 am

havent slept yet

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2am here

Mmm we will see

I'm really tired right now so

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i should actually go to bed
bye

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Might just yeet this distro and use something else

Oko

Gn

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just a heads up
if youre still going to use btrfs as your root in the future
and only give it 20-40GiB
remember to balance weekly so that this wont happen again

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Alright

Gonna try for a fix in the morning

If no luck then i will do that

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.s archbased

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Users of unofficial install scripts and Arch-based distributions may not make support posts using the arch tag. This comes from the Arch Code of Conduct. By installing the system in a way that you do not have control over, you do not know how your system is set up or if a script silently broke something. This can cause huge issues with support, especially if people don't know you used a script.

If you need support with your system, use the other distros tag.

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so remove arch tag and use other distros instead as this is garuda which is not arch but based on it

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make room by using filelight or baobab

.aw filelight

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.aw baobab

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bruh
read what i just said b4

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.

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@hushed dragon
the problem is not the space for data
it's the space for metadata
it cant create anymore files since it can no longer create another block group for medata since the rest is all allocated to data

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🥲gm

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@hot aurora i tried to free up some space

And Pacman started working

But now it's stuck at this

Wait something happened

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you shouldve done a balance b4 the pacman to fully to fix the thing 💀

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Shittt

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good
atleast it continued

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Now

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could you show
btrfs fi us /

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yeah we still need to do a ballance
data is hogging all the space

btrfs balance start --full-balance /

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No space left on the device

Wtf

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F

we really need some unallocated space for it to work

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Should I grub-mkconfig -o boot grub

And try to launch

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🤷‍♂️
are you fine with having WinRe deleted?

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No

I mainly use windows

All data is there

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F
backup and reinstall ig

garuda i mean

not windows

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If I can get balance working again

I don't need to right

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yeah but we need some device unallocated here

which you cant get by just deleting stuff

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Hmmm

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How long does this full balance take

I did balance with dusage 90

Like 7 8 chunks relocated

But that was not enough

So i did full balance

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depends on the drive speed

but it should be no more than 1 hour

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@hot aurora DUDE

I FIXED IT

Let's gooo

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👍

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I used space from my external hdd

To balance

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wait
how?
did you btrfs dev add?

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Yes

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oh boy
youll have to wait more minutes
to btrfs dev remove

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I did that as well

I'm using Linux rn

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oh good

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It worked

Yes

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now
to prevent this from happening again
just do
btrfs balance -musage=20 -dusage=30 every week

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I can do that stuff in normal terminal right

Or do i need to chroot

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yeah

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Oko ok

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you can make a cron job or systemd service for it if you dont want to keep typing that every week

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I will do it manually

Don't wanna break more stuff lol

How do i close this

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... solved

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