the data in /home can not be preserved

[ychaouche]

Hello !

Mx linux 18.3. When running the live CD, run the installer, choose preserve data in /home, click next, eat this error :
https://i.imgur.com/CaAB5AL.png

my /home is not encrypted.

Help ?



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[dolphin_oracle]

please post the /var/log/minstall.log.

[asqwerth]

Is your pre-existing /home under another user name?

I've no idea if that makes a difference but I'm asking.

[dolphin_oracle]

Is your pre-existing /home under another user name?

I've no idea if that makes a difference but I'm asking.

It shouldn't make a difference. at this stage in the installer we are only looking for the partition. the user hasn't even been defined yet.

[ychaouche]

Thanks @dolphine_oracle ! So I think the problem is that I chose to install MX Linux over a partition that has already been hosting another distribution with a btrfs filesystem. This means that at the top of the partition there is a "@" folder before the slash "/" folder :

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$ sudo mount /dev/sda9 /mnt/antiX/ -o ro
demo@mx1:~
$ ls /mnt/antiX/@/
bin/            home/           lib64/          proc/           sys/            vmlinuz.old
boot/           initrd.img      libx32/         root/           tmp/            
dev/            initrd.img.old  media/          run/            usr/            
etc/            lib/            mnt/            sbin/           var/            
fstab           lib32/          opt/            srv/            vmlinuz         
demo@mx1:~

When the installer wants to mount the /home partition it tries to put it in /mnt/antiX/home, but that directory doesn't exist, it should be mounted in /mnt/antiX/@/home/, so the mount exits with error code 32, as shown in the logs :

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2019-07-18 09:16:25.383 DBG default: "/bin/mount /dev/sda9 /mnt/antiX -o ro"
2019-07-18 09:16:26.075 DBG default: exit code: 0
2019-07-18 09:16:26.075 DBG default: +++ bool MInstall::mountPartition(QString, QString, QString) +++
2019-07-18 09:16:26.079 DBG default: "/bin/mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/antiX/home -o ro"
2019-07-18 09:16:26.087 DBG default: exit code: 32

I don't really know if this can be fixed ?

[dolphin_oracle]

probably not right away.

Here's the work around for you. You could just install with /home to the root directory, then add your home folder afterwards via fstab.

[ychaouche]

probably not right away.

Here's the work around for you. You could just install with /home to the root directory, then add your home folder afterwards via fstab.

As always, thanks for the tip :) (and quick follow up)