disko

I'm trying to use the disko-install command to create a custom bootable USB that has an entire NixOS system (including persistent storage and access to git and neovim, plus a few other goodies).

After running sudo nix run 'github:nix-community/disko/latest#disko-install' -- --flake .#image --disk os /dev/sdc, things seem to get built/copied etc., but it finally halts with this error:

subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/nix/store/rp6yhapgwv5yad023117digxawm4la1n-check-mountpoints']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
Failed to install bootloader
disko-install failed
rmdir: failed to remove '/mnt/disko-install-root': Directory not empty

I tried to delete the directory directly but it didn't work even as superuser (!?): rm: cannot remove '/mnt/disko-install-root/var/empty': Operation not permitted.

My disko (and NixOS configuration) is pretty simple and the problem occurs even with a minimal configuration (so I don't think it's the issue) but I can share it if required.

02:00:31

Mic92

Is there something that doesn't get unmoun ted?

09:46:18

Mic92

mountpoint -q "${mountPoint}"

09:47:17

Mic92

Does your disko config not mount anything to it's mountpoint?

09:47:37

I think it does. Here it is:

{
  disko.devices = {
    nodev."/" = {
      fsType = "tmpfs";
      mountOptions = [
        "size=2G"
        "defaults"
        "mode=755"
      ];
    };
    nodev."/home/username" = {
      fsType = "tmpfs";
      mountOptions = [
        "size=2G"
        "defaults"
        "mode=777"
      ];
    };
    disk = {
      os = {
        imageName = "nixos-usb-stick";
        imageSize = "60G";
        type = "disk";
        content = {
          type = "gpt";
          partitions = {
            ESP = {
              type = "EF00";
              priority = 0;
              end = "1G";
              content = {
                type = "filesystem";
                format = "vfat";
                mountpoint = "/boot";
                mountOptions = ["defaults" "umask=0077"];
              };
            };
            root = {
              priority = 1;
              end = "-0";
              content = {
                type = "luks";
                name = "root";
                initrdUnlock = true;
                extraFormatArgs = ["--pbkdf argon2id"];
                content = {
                  type = "btrfs";
                  extraArgs = ["-f"];
                  subvolumes = {
                    "/nix" = {
                      mountpoint = "/nix";
                      mountOptions = ["compress=zstd" "noatime"];
                    };
                    "/persist" = {
                      mountpoint = "/persist";
                      mountOptions = ["compress=zstd" "noatime"];
                    };
                    "/data" = {
                      mountpoint = "/data";
                      mountOptions = ["compress=zstd" "noatime"];
                    };
                  };
                };
              };
            };
          };
        };
      };
    };
  };
}

20:10:08

This doesn't return anything :(

20:11:27

Also, if you can think of an easier way to create a USB stick with (i) a bootable NixOS (for recovery purposes) and (ii) persistent storage of important files, that'd work for me too!

20:12:39

* Also, if you can think of an easier way to create a USB stick with (i) a bootable custom NixOS (for recovery purposes) and (ii) persistent storage of important files, that'd work for me too!

20:12:50

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21:37:37

hey, what is the best way to set up encrypted ZFS on root using disko?

23:54:59

Is there a way to get it to prompt me for a passphrase while I am provisioning the dataset?

23:55:36

also, what is the difference between zpool.<name>.rootFsOptions and zpool.<name>.options?

23:58:42

and generally I want to make sure I understand how zfs property inheritance works with disko

00:18:08

In reply to @waltmck:matrix.org
also, what is the difference between zpool.<name>.rootFsOptions and zpool.<name>.options?

zpool options are https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/7/zpoolprops.7.html

00:19:28

whereas the rootfsoptions is https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/7/zfsprops.7.html

00:19:46

because every zpool has an implicit 'root' dataset

00:20:05

In reply to @waltmck:matrix.org
Is there a way to get it to prompt me for a passphrase while I am provisioning the dataset?

it should do that if you don't set passwordFile or keyFile

00:20:27

how are you using disko?

00:20:41

I'm not sure yet. I have used it with nixos-anywhere in the pass to deploy to headless servers, but it may be difficult since I am trying to set up encrypted root. I have physical access to this machine

00:21:36

* I'm not sure yet. I have used it with nixos-anywhere in the past to deploy to headless servers, but it may be difficult since I am trying to set up encrypted root. I have physical access to this machine

00:21:49

In reply to @waltmck:matrix.org
I'm not sure yet. I have used it with nixos-anywhere in the past to deploy to headless servers, but it may be difficult since I am trying to set up encrypted root. I have physical access to this machine

it should work fine with nixos-anywhere

00:23:53