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Description of problem: The Fedora Life-CD installer does not allow to install fedora to existing gpt disk partition with btrfs. (btrfs seems to be supported only when the destination is the whole disk and not a preexisting partition. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 24 Alpha-7 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora from Life CD 2. manual partitioning... 3. select existing partition, mountpoint / Actual results: btrfs is not available Expected results: --> expected fstype btrfs available
This seems to concern the main installer (and not zyx-liveinstaller), which is anaconda. I'm switching the component setting for the ticket over accordingly.
A btrfs filesystem can only be created in a btrfs volume, which may span multiple partitions and devices. While it may be possible to reformat a standard partition as btrfs, it is conceptually more complicated than that, and for that reason anaconda requires that the volume be created anew and not from an existing partition.