Bug 1016840

I have tried to verify this bug with following setup:

system with two hard disks:
vda: /boot (xfs), / (xfs), swap
vdb: /home (btrfs)

I've reinstalled this system manually recreating all partitions except /home which reused. The installation went without problems.

After that I tried to use generated kickstart from /root/anacond-ks.cfg to reinstall the system once again but anaconda fails before starting GUI with:

"The following problem occurred on line 33 of the kickstart file:
btrfs subvol requires specification of parent volume"

So i have tried to modify the line to include parent volume:
btrfs /home --noformat --useexisting --subvol --name=home rhel

This time the GUI started properly but with "No disks selected" in Installation Destination with following error:

The following problem occurred on line 32 of the kickstart file:
Specified nonexistent BTRFS volume in btrfs command

Created attachment 865486 [details]
generated kickstart used for installation

See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#btrfs if you haven't already.

You cannot use btrfs as an fstype in kickstart. You have to define a volume and, optionally, some subvolumes.

You will need to identify your existing btrfs volume using label or UUID.


I'm not sure if setting it back to ON_QA is correct, but I believe the failure was in the test procedure.

I was not successful to write kickstart which would reuse btrfs partition myself so I tried to use the one generated by anaconda itself and that kickstart also failed to reuse btrfs.

Could you please provide kickstart you used to produce this bug?

This sets up the btrfs layout in a first installation:

# Partition clearing information
clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda

# Disk partitioning information
part swap --fstype="swap" --ondisk=sda --size=2048
part /boot --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=500
part btrfs.12 --fstype="btrfs" --ondisk=sda --size=4096 --grow
btrfs none --label=rhel --data=single btrfs.12
btrfs /home --subvol --name=home 
btrfs / --subvol --name=root 


This will perform a second installation which will set a mountpoint for the preexisting home subvolume from the previous (above) installation:

cleapart --type=none
part swap --fstype="swap" --onpart=sda2
part /boot --fstype="xfs" --onpart=sda1
btrfs /home --subvol --name=home --useexisting --noformat LABEL=rhel
btrfs / --subvol --name=newroot LABEL=rhel

I have followed your suggestions but any of them does not work. Suggestion for installation failed with bug 1072060. But this can be fixed with adding label "rhel" of btrfs volume at the end of last two lines.

The suggestion for second installation fails with anaconda reporting an error "Unable to allocate requested partition scheme".

Since you did not include the logs I can only guess what went wrong. Try this:

First install:

# Partition clearing information
clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda

# Disk partitioning information
part swap --fstype="swap" --ondisk=sda --size=2048 --label=swap
part /boot --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=500 --label=boot
part btrfs.12 --fstype="btrfs" --ondisk=sda --size=4096 --grow
btrfs none --label=rhel --data=single btrfs.12
btrfs /home --subvol --name=home rhel
btrfs / --subvol --name=root rhel


Second install:

cleapart --type=none
part swap --fstype="swap" --onpart=LABEL=swap
part /boot --fstype="xfs" --onpart=LABEL=boot
btrfs /home --subvol --name=home --useexisting --noformat LABEL=rhel
btrfs / --subvol --name=newroot LABEL=rhel


If this does not work, please attach anaconda.log and storage.log.

With these everything went fine.

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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