| 2 Jan 2026 |
 belak | Specifically the nesting of drive -> luks/lvm_pv -> lvm_vg -> partition is pretty frustrating, and naming is really confusing so I'm having a hard time following it...
Like if I have main (drive) -> crypted (maybe crypted-main or luks-main if it needs to be unique) -> main (maybe vg-main if it needs to be unique) -> root and storage (drive) -> crypted (maybe crypted-storage or luks-storage) -> storage (or vg-storage) -> data
This works, but there's a lot of duplication and the structure is relatively unclear unless you really dig into it.
Is there a better way to do that or best practices around luks?
| 07:34:23 |
| belak | Playing around with it and using :lf . to experiment, yes - luks names need to be unique | 08:00:50 |
| belak | I also prefixed my vg's with vg- because they end up as /dev/vg-main/root | 08:01:37 |
 ed209 | In reply to @belak:matrix.org
Playing around with it and using :lf . to experiment, yes - luks names need to be unique yeah i was gonna say the name ends up in /dev/mapper/<name> | 12:47:36 |
| belak | It was mostly that I wasn't sure if disko made combined names, similar to /dev/disk/by-partlabel, where it makes disk-{disk name}-{part name} labels | 18:19:12 |
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 Tumble | could i use disko to format a qcow to test a config? | 12:40:46 |
 bandithedoge | yes:
https://github.com/nix-community/disko/blob/master/docs/interactive-vm.md
https://github.com/nix-community/disko/blob/master/docs/disko-images.md | 16:17:18 |
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| Tumble | do i have to create a system config? | 22:16:34 |
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| zed | Hello there !
I'm new to disko (and nix/nixos in general 😓), and I was wondering if once I have a system setup with a certain layout with disko (let's say LVM, and then 2 LVs)...
changing the disk-config by adding an lv will be done incrementally or will destroy everything ? | 20:12:18 |
 lassulus | nothing will happen, the new things won't get applied. you need to run the format script manually if you want those changes to have an effect, but better check the script before running it, since that support is kinda undertested | 20:18:36 |
| zed | thanks, I'll check the script then :) | 20:19:58 |
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| 10 Jan 2026 |
| Tumble | i want to make a singular disko.nix config with params, of {osDrive, homeDrive, zfsName, zfsCache, zfsDrives}, and depending on witch of these are defined or not, then produce a disko config, but i dont think i can have null drives or even remove properties from an attribe set | 11:24:21 |
| Tumble | wait maybe ++ could help | 11:27:08 |
| Tumble | i mean // | 11:27:30 |
| Tumble | ok good this might work | 11:30:33 |
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| Tumble | Woah, I was struggling with this last week, now I have a great starting point, amazing | 12:57:32 |
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