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hadilq / NixOS-guide.md
Last active April 20, 2025 06:24
Encypted LUKS LVM Btrfs Root with Opt-in State on NixOS

I'm trying to follow this guide to install NixOS using Btrfs, LUKS and LVM. The main usage of this page for me will be remembering what I did! My laptop is ASUS ROG GL553VD.

Just downloaded Plasma Desktop, 64bit and create a bootable Flash Drive. Then boot up to NixOS Live CD. Using gparted to create two partitions, One 200MB vfat EFI partittion and the rest of SSD drive will be an encrypted partition.

DISK=/dev/nvme0n1
@gabrieljcs
gabrieljcs / lvm-cache-fedora.md
Last active February 23, 2025 17:55
Instructions to create an LVM cache for root in Fedora

LVM cache in Fedora

From the man-pages: "The cache logical volume type uses a small and fast LV to improve the performance of a large and slow LV. It does this by storing the frequently used blocks on the faster LV. LVM refers to the small fast LV as a cache pool LV. The large slow LV is called the origin LV. Due to requirements from dm-cache (the kernel driver), LVM further splits the cache pool LV into two devices - the cache data LV and cache metadata LV. The cache data LV is where copies of data blocks are kept from the origin LV to increase speed. The cache metadata LV holds the accounting information that specifies where data blocks are stored (e.g. on the origin LV or on the cache data LV). Users should be familiar with these LVs if they wish to create the best and most robust cached logical volumes. All of these associated LVs must be in the same VG."

Assuming LVM is already setup in HDD (e.g. from anaconda) and SSD is untouched.

Create a physical