Re: How to create /home BTRFS subvolume on a second disk during installation?

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:27:54 -0400
Erick Delgado <edelgado81@gmail.com> wrote:

Unfortunately I am unable to provide the output by text since I am

only able to login via tty2. I can take a photo of it and send it.

Will that be okay?

Please keep the conversation on list.
And please don't top post.

I'd assumed you knew pretty much what you were doing, since you're
trying a somewhat unusual installation for Debian. You can post a photo
somewhere if you need to and post a link to the mailing list.

El jul. 26, 2023, a la(s) 16:04, debian-user@howorth.org.uk escribió:

Erick Delgado <edelgado81@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Debian users and developers,

I would like to know if it’s possible to create the /home BTRFS

subvolume on a second disk (nvme, etc.) during expert installation?

If so, how? The reason I ask is because I was following this YouTube

video (https://youtu.be/MoWApyUb5w8) and I have tried to do the

partition table first (/ on first disk and the /home on the second

disk, both BTRFS), then Ctrl + Alt + F2 to the Debian installer

shell to create some BTRFS subvolumes on the first disk similar as

in the video. The subvolumes for the first disk that I created were

@ (for /root), @cache, @log, and @tmp.

Err I haven't looked at the video but I think the @ subvolume should

be for / (i.e. the root directory) rather than for /root (i.e.

root's home directory). The latter is just a normal directory in the

former.

After I finish, I proceed to do

a minimal installation of Debian. Once I reboot after the complete

installation and login through terminal I get a message that HOME is

not found and sets HOME=/ (which is very odd since the partition was

done). I tried to install the minimal KDE Plasma and tried to login

to see what occurs. But can’t login to the desktop because it takes

me right back to the login screen. Can someone please help me on

this?

Thank you for your time and help.

Maybe after you boot you could run e.g. df -hT and post the output

here.