Unable to install to btrfs partitions
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux Mint |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
|
Ikey Doherty | ||
Bug Description
You cannot install Linux Mint 10RC to a btrfs partition, but the installer does not warn you of this - it completes the install, but would refuse to boot regardless of settings used.
This happens with Mint 9 and mint 10 RC.
In order to reproduce this, simply manually partition and set the / or /boot partitions as btrfs.The installer allows this and makes no mention of the potential problems trying to boot from a btrfs partition.
Instead of current behaviour, the installer should warn the user that the system may not be bootable when the install completes. I am not suggesting that the btrfs formatting option should be removed from the installer, only that a warning should be given if the user attempts to set it as / or /boot.
This problem occurs during every install in these situations. I have tested it on two separate systems: A core i7-based desktop equipped with an SSD, and an amd turion based laptop with a single 250GB hard drive, and it appears to be hardware independent. If further hardware details are required, I will supply them.
| Ikey Doherty (ikey) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in linuxmint: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Ikey Doherty (ikey) |
| milestone: | none → lmde-upcoming |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Full BTRFS support has not yet been added to LMDE.
Once btrfs has been tested and proven to function correctly in LMDE full
support will be implemented. The btrfs option is in the installer due to
mkfs.btrfs being present, however the installer isn't presently tailored
to btrfs-specific use-cases.
This will be rectified in a future release of LMDE.