Installation without formating already formatted BTRFS partition.
thunderamur opened this issue · 1 comments
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.
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.