Mastodawn

It is surprisingly difficult to install #Bazzite across multiple disks and have separate mount points for each one, i.e. having the home directory be on a separate disk than the system itself

The new Anaconda installer doesn't even offer btrfs as a file system in the partition editor??? But Bazzite requires btrfs, so choosing anything else will bork the install

Bewildering…

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Big Ben 3d ago

@SebinNyshkim I’ve been dealing with this weird issue where the Disks application’s mounting feature doesn’t work at all until I’ve mounted a disk from the command line. That means auto-mount on system startup doesn’t work and I have no idea why. I’m not as good with Linux as I’d hope to be and since I borked a 2 TB M.2 accidentally while trying to sort this out a while ago I am feeling very complacent

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Sebin Nyshkim

@BmeBenji My personal experience with Bazzite is very limited. I set it up for a couple friends and the old installer allowed you to have the home partition on a separate disk and it would "just work" (if you know the mount points in advance).

The new installer is very dumbed down in that regard. You can only choose the disks you want to use and… that's it. If you do that, however, it creates a btrfs RAID with all the disks you selected, but it doesn't indicate it will do so.

There is a partition editor, but it does not allow you to format partitions with btrfs or specify btrfs subvolumes and their mount points for the installed system, like you could with the old installer. And Bazzite has a hard requirement on btrfs.

Having your home directory on a separate disk isn't that uncommon of a setup to have, so it's just weird the installer doesn't allow you to do this at all.