Is it possible to install Silverblue on SSD without reformating

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I got it working… :joy:

Reading the information twice (I am a bad reader…) @pg-tips gave me I understood.

Very important: the subvols root, var and home must not exist.

Here what I did

Going directly into the blivet gui and …

  • choosing /dev/sda1 for /boot/efi
  • then /dev/sda2 for /boot and here it is important to say formatting as ext4
  • now unlocking the btrfs volume
  • with the + button add a new subvolume root with mount point /
  • then add a new subvol var with mount point /var
  • finally add a new subvol home with mount point /var/home

and then the installer is happy because it can create those subvols.

I could run the installation and then I booted into the newly installed system and the “old” subvols were still existing.

I am very happy now as this is how it should be. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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