Ext4 installation is not possible

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Hi,

I am a Linux newbee. I came across during the installation of Linux Manjaro. I somehow cannot create a partition on the ext4 filesystem.

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I would appreciate any help!

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the /boot/efi partition is always a fat-system (usually 300MB) that contains the uefi-boot-loader. it’s not intended for any other use.

question: why don’t you use the automated partitioning? you can still change the default btrfs to ext4.

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You must give the new partition a mountpoint.

In your screenshot, the mountpoint /boot/efi is selected, but that is the mountpoint for your EFI system partition, which should be vfat (FAT32). If you’re going to go with a single partition for the whole Manjaro system, then the mountpoint should be “/” — this will be your root filesystem.

It is however recommended to create a separate partition for /home. Your root partition need not be bigger than 60 GiB, so you can use almost all of the rest for /home.

If your system has less than 16 GiB of RAM, then we also recommend creating a swap partition. If you wish to hibernate the system — i.e. suspend-to-disk — then the recommended value is 1.5x to 2x the size of your RAM. The swap partition does not require a mountpoint.

Make sure the EFI system partition at the start of the drive has the esp and/or boot flag.

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As @Aragorn said..

But you only need two things for manual partitioning in the Manjaro installer.

Path FS Flags Size
/boot/efi FAT32 boot 300 MB
/ ext4 (or btrfs) root The rest minus swap

The Calarmares installer adds the ESP flag to the partition as well with just checkbox “boot”

Home on a separate partition, for a “newbie”. I think it depends on what you want. One of them will fill up sooner with two, but it won’t be potentially catastrophic if it’s home and not root.

Swap is highly recommended, even if you see it never in use. The up to date kernel docs themselves say this. I often give half the space of the RAM. (8G RAM and 4G swap partition, pretty tiny for most SSD/HDDs!)

So I would definitely add a few GB at end for swap. Putting swap at the end of the drive can be useful, for things like resizing. As you can just blow away your swap partition, and recreate it very easily.

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/boot/efi should be a fat32 file system and can be quite small

and don’t check every single possible checkmark - just one → “bootfähig” is enough for this partition

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Install Manjaro

  • Download the ISO and verify it against the provided checksum file.
  • Create a Manjaro Installer USB.
    • A Ventoy USB is recommended (See below).
  • Boot the Manjaro Installer (or Ventoy) USB.
  • Choose the free graphics driver option to boot.
  • From the Live environment, run Calamares (the Manjaro installer).
  • Fill in any required information
  • At the partitioning stage:
    • Select the Erase Disk partitioning method.
    • Select ext4 (the default is btrfs) as your file system.
    • Select your preferred swap options.
  • Continue to complete Manjaro installation.
  • Reboot.

Congratulations: you have installed Manjaro. :partying_face:

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