Hello everyone,
I tried the installation last weekend. I missed the option to install to an existing partition. On my test system (real metal) I have a partition with ‘testing’, an empty partition (which I wanted to use for the installation) and a data partition. Testing and data are btrfs formatted.
Unfortunately, I could only select ‘Full Disk’ and ‘Manual Partitioning’.
Kind regards,
Daniel
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What is unfortunate, is that you apparently didn’t know enough to use manual partitioning to achieve the result you wanted.
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When the target is using btrfs - that is the only option.
btrfs is far more flexible than ext4 and because the file system does not define partitions but subvolumes there is only two options.
Therefore - using the installer you must either use the whole disk or manually remove sub volumes or assign existing sub volumes to their mount points.
I will answer myself in order to counter the unhelpful comments here with something meaningful.
On three other systems (one with a standard Windows installation, one with a typical Manjaro installation and one with the setup described at the beginning) I could not observe the behaviour. Here I was also offered the expected ‘Replace a partition’.
I therefore suspect that specific circumstances on one of my systems mean that the installer does not offer to replace a partition. Due to a lack of time and necessity, I did not investigate further at this point.
Both comments that you label as unhelpful suggested that using the manual partitioning method would have allowed you to complete your objective.
Note that with Zetar, installing using the Manjaro Installer ISO defaults to BTRFS rather than EXT4 as the filesystem, in which case some of the perhaps expected Calamares options will not be available.
However, selecting EXT4 when that choice is offered may produce options you are more familiar with.
If you had used previous ISOs for the other systems you mention, they would have defaulted to EXT4 (and the option to use BTRFS would have been offered).
As many/most users tend to ignore available options during installation in favour of “click, click, click…” then it’s quite possible these can be missed.
This seems to suggest your issue is now abandoned or no longer relevant. Should you wish to provide new information please ask Moderation staff (via PM) to re-open this topic at their discretion.
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