Installation without formating already formatted BTRFS partition.

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Installation without formating already formatted BTRFS partition. #110

Closed thunderamur closed 2 years ago

thunderamur commented 4 years ago

I try to install LMDE4 to already formatted Btrfs partition with compression=lzo property. Usually, in Linux Mint (Ubuntu), I format partition before installation and set compression to Btrfs filesystem. But here I can not do this. Installer warning me that I must indicate a filesystem to formate the root (/) partition with before proceeding. Installation continues only if I set format partition.

Please, make possible to install LMDE without formating already formatted BTRFS partition.

clefebvre commented 2 years ago

Even if you bypassed the format operation you'd still need to specify the compression somehow during the mount and in the fstab.

This is too niche a feature to be included in the installer. That said there are two options:

Enabling compression and recompressing / post-installation: https://askubuntu.com/questions/129063/will-btrfs-automatically-compress-existing-files-when-compression-is-enabled
Using the expert mode with sudo live-installer --expert-mode.