Installing onto BTRFS?

29 July 2020, 03:01:46

I am setting up a small box to act as both an OpenVPN server and a BTRFS-backed file-server. I zeroed the disk and created my partition layout using System Rescue CD, then booted the Artix base CD from a USB stick. I mounted everything and did the basestrap for base and base-devel, but when I tried the basestrap for linux and linux-firmware, I got errors about fsck.btrfs, likely due to the BTRFS stuff not being included by default. How do I get that stuff and then what do I do to fix the basestrap command that failed? I am a long-time Gentoo user and prior to systemd, a die-hard Debian user. I have just never used Arch or Artix and am stumped at the correct procedure here. I am installing with OpenRC since I use that in Gentoo.

Thanks in advance for the guidance!

Re: Installing onto BTRFS?

Reply #1 – 29 July 2020, 15:43:53

Install btrfs-progs, that should fix it. I installed on btrfs and it works fine, but I did need to install that. Pacman can sometimes help too, eg:

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pacman -Ss btrfs

which searches the repo for packages and tells you if they are already installed or not.