'root filesystem is not BTRFS. During Rockstor installation, you must select BTRFS instead of LVM and other options for root filesystem. Please re-install Rockstor properly.'

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ot filesystem is not BTRFS. During Rockstor installation, you must select BTRFS instead of LVM and other options for root filesystem. Please re-install Rockstor properly.’

        Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/rest_framework_custom/generic_view.py”, line 41, in _handle_exception
yield
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/storageadmin/views/disk.py”, line 383, in post
return self._update_disk_state()
File “/opt/rockstor/eggs/Django-1.8.16-py2.7.egg/django/utils/decorators.py”, line 145, in inner
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/storageadmin/views/disk.py”, line 75, in _update_disk_state
disks = scan_disks(settings.MIN_DISK_SIZE)
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/osi.py”, line 137, in scan_disks
base_root_disk = root_disk()
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/osi.py”, line 944, in root_disk
raise NonBTRFSRootException(msg)
NonBTRFSRootException: ‘root filesystem is not BTRFS. During Rockstor installation, you must select BTRFS instead of LVM and other options for root filesystem. Please re-install Rockstor properly.’

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Hi @rodrigue7973be,

Rockstor only supports BTRFS for it’s root file system. Sounds like you may have done custom partitioning and selected a file system that’s managed by LVM instead of BTRFS for the root file system. You’ll need to reinstall and select BTRFS for the root file system to exist on.