Cant install on btrfs partition

General system Installation
1

I have been trying to install eos on my btrfs partition but calamares starts the mounting of the partition, creates the @ subvolume and then fails
https://termbin.com/bnxc

Hardware information:
inxi -Fxxc0z --no-host | eos-sendlog
http://ix.io/4Grh

Boot log:
journalctl -b -0 | eos-sendlog
http://ix.io/4Gri

This is the popup error message that the installer spits out:

Command '['btrfs', 'subvolume', 'create', '/tmp/calamares-root-fjqwonz2/@']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
None

Traceback:
File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/mount/main.py", line 350, in run
    mount_partition(root_mount_point, partition, partitions, mount_options, mount_options_list)

File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/mount/main.py", line 282, in mount_partition

subprocess.check_call(["btrfs", "subvolume", "create",


File "/usr/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 413, in check_call

raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)

2

Can you explain what you are trying to do? Are you trying to install into an existing btrfs partition? Are you using manual partioning?

3

Yes i am using manual partitioning.
The partition scheme i have is as follows:
sda1 fat32 /boot/efi
sda2 btrfs /
sda3 swap

So in manual partitioning i set those 3 partitions and then press install. The installer starts moiunting sda2 and creates the root subvolume @ then crashes with the error i posted on the first post.

4

My guess would be that either you didn’t check the box to format the btrfs partition or you are installing into an existing partition where @ already exists.

5

i do not need/want to format the partition, I have other OS’s there.
ls /mnt/sda2/
@archlinux @gentoo @home @snapshots @

@ is the partition that eos installer creates before crashing.
It might be that it fails to create the @home subvolume as it alredy exists.
I will try to rename my current one and see if it still fails.
Will report in a bit

6

It seems like that was the problem. The installer was failing cause there was alredy a @home subvolume present. I solved it