Erick Delgado <edelgad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Debian users and developers, > I would like to know if it’s possible to create the /home BTRFS > subvolume on a second disk (nvme, etc.) during expert installation? > If so, how? The reason I ask is because I was following this YouTube > video (https://youtu.be/MoWApyUb5w8) and I have tried to do the > partition table first (/ on first disk and the /home on the second > disk, both BTRFS), then Ctrl + Alt + F2 to the Debian installer shell > to create some BTRFS subvolumes on the first disk similar as in the > video. The subvolumes for the first disk that I created were @ > (for /root), @cache, @log, and @tmp.
Err I haven't looked at the video but I think the @ subvolume should be for / (i.e. the root directory) rather than for /root (i.e. root's home directory). The latter is just a normal directory in the former. > After I finish, I proceed to do > a minimal installation of Debian. Once I reboot after the complete > installation and login through terminal I get a message that HOME is > not found and sets HOME=/ (which is very odd since the partition was > done). I tried to install the minimal KDE Plasma and tried to login > to see what occurs. But can’t login to the desktop because it takes > me right back to the login screen. Can someone please help me on this? > > Thank you for your time and help. Maybe after you boot you could run e.g. df -hT and post the output here.
