chreekat / partition-for-nixos

Partition a new device for NixOS

Partition for NixOS

One man's attempt to set up his new devices for NixOS.

Current setup

• Unencrypted /boot
• Btrfs on LUKS for the rest
• /home is a subvolume
• /swap is a subvolume
  • TODO: /swap/swapfile exists, but isn't automatically recognized by nixos-generate-config.

Steps taken

• User is prompted for installation disk
• Disk is first randomized
• Partitions created
• Main partition encrypted
• Subvolumes created
• Swap created
• nixos-generate-config is run

Steps not taken

(Feel free to suggest improvements here).

• Get your SSH keys from somewhere (or generate new ones)
• Get your standard NixOS configuration from somewhere
• nixos-install