elementary
Selecting 'btrfs' as the root '/' filesystem leads to failures to update initramfs during updates; installing btrfs-progs fixes the issue
What Happened?
If you select a custom install, and use btrfs for the elementaryOS root "/" during install, then when you update the OS, it does not have the tools available to update initramfs after the updates. Installing the package btrfs-progs solves this by making the tools available it needs to work with btrfs. So if you select btrfs as a filesystem option during install, elemetaryOS needs to actually install btrfs-progs so it can do things once the OS is installed.
It's just more of a missing package if an option is selected during partition assignment than an actual issue with the OS itself.
Steps to Reproduce
- Choose custom partitioning
- Select 'btrfs' as the filesystem for the root '/' partition
- Once the OS is installed, go to update the OS 'sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
- Receive an error unable to update initramfs due to missing fsck.btrfs
- fsck.btrfs is part of the btrfs-progs. If you install btrfs-progs before updates, this issue does not occur. If you install it afterwards, it will pickup the pending changes and update initramfs for you.
Expected Behavior
- Choose custom partitioning
- Select 'btrfs' as the filesystem for the root '/' partition
- Once the OS is installed, go to update the OS 'sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
- Profit.
OS Version
8.x (Circe)
Session Type
Secure Session (Wayland)
Software Version
Latest release (I have run all updates)
Log Output
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142ubuntu25.5) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.11.0-19-generic
W: /sbin/fsck.btrfs doesn't exist, can't install to initramfs
This is also not Session type dependant. Happens on both 8 and 8.0.1 ISOs. I have not tested this on 7.
Hardware Info
This is not hardware dependant, however both machines tested on specs:
ThinkStation P340 Tower: Hexa-Core Intel® Core(TM) i5-10400 CPU @ 2.90GHz Intel® UHD Graphics 630 32 GB memory 5 TB storage (NVMe SSD)
ThinkPad T480 Quad-Core Intel® Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz Intel® UHD Graphics 620 64 GB memory 1 TB storage (NVMe SSD)
