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Difficult NixOS installation if you want to customize btrfs subvolumes #315059

Open yajo opened 4 months ago

yajo commented 4 months ago

Describe the bug

I recently installed NixOS using the graphical installer and it worked pretty well.

Now I'm trying to install on another machine where I want a slightly more customized disk layout, which is similar to https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Btrfs#Configuration

The graphical installer has no notion of btrfs subvolumes, and thus it becomes very complex to configure.

Expected behavior

Some graphical way to configure btrfs subvolumes during nixos install.

Additional context

As a comparison, the Fedora installer makes this much easier. It is based on Blivet-GUI, not on Parted. FWIW there's no Blivet GUI package on NixOS.

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eclairevoyant commented 4 months ago

The graphical installer is maintained at https://github.com/NixOS/calamares-nixos-extensions, you might ask there.

yajo commented 4 months ago

Ah! Do you have permissions to transfer this issue there?