Archinstall fails with manual partition when creating Snapper sub-volumes
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- arch-linux, python
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
Research direction
Start by reproducing a manual partition installation with pre-created Snapper sub-volumes and the Snapper option enabled. Trace the partition and Snapper setup flow to confirm where the duplicate creation occurs; done means the conflict is avoided or clearly prevented, with the installation path verified.
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Description
Which ISO version are you using?
2026-01-01
The installation log
Install log wiped on reboot after install failed.
describe the problem
Archinstall fails after creating manual partition setup of Snapper sub-volumes due to conflict when you choose Snapper.
Chose manual partition. Created standard Snapper flat sub volumes. Selected Snapper as install option. On install the script failed. It appears that by selecting Snapper it then creates its own sub volumes (in manual partition mode) with naturally conflicted with mine.
Didn’t realize it would automatically create these volumes given I was in manual partition.
Solution: notice to not create Snapper subvolumes when selecting Snapper as it will automatically do it for you would have been sufficient to avoid this conflict.
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- Python
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