Home conversion to btrfs fails at mount and rolls back
Converting /home to btrfs fails at the mount step with Structure needs cleaning and rolls back to ext4.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
7 public reports · first reported 3 November 2024 · last reported 16 June 2026
What's going wrong
Steam Deck owners trying to convert the home partition from ext4 to btrfs with the steamos-btrfs tool often see the conversion finish, then fail when the new partition is mounted.
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