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| 5 Mar 2026 |
 francesco | Hi folks. I have two PRs open that will soon enough celebrate their first birthday 😉 and they started getting multiple thumbs up. Can someone have a look and merge them? I've been using them all the time in my fork.
- https://github.com/nix-community/disko/pull/1056
https://github.com/nix-community/disko/pull/1057
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| snowflake | hello there! | 20:11:42 |
| snowflake | i heard on reddit that btrfs is better than ext4 | 20:15:14 |
 hexa | they do things differently | 20:21:27 |
| snowflake | i already installed nixos but just want to have different disk partitioning (specifically luks with btrfs) | 20:21:34 |
| hexa | and offer different features | 20:21:35 |
| hexa | will always recommend zfs over btrfs | 20:21:56 |
| snowflake | can i reinstall nixos directly from already installed nixos? | 20:21:59 |
| snowflake | i tried but it failed | 20:22:14 |
| hexa | no, you cannot repartition/reformat your root disk while partitions are mounted | 20:22:50 |
| snowflake | also would like to re-import my my already existing config files | 20:23:05 |
| snowflake | ohh i just realized thats why you should do it from a usb flash drive :OO | 20:23:39 |
| snowflake | tysm for making me realize that | 20:23:47 |
| snowflake | whats the easiest method to re-import my configuration files & disko config then? | 20:25:32 |
| snowflake | using a 2nd flash drive? | 20:26:12 |
| snowflake | i guess that would work | 20:26:24 |
| snowflake | or wait i can access my files from the ssd directly from the nixos usb flash installation | 20:27:33 |
| snowflake | gonna try that rn | 20:27:55 |
| 6 Mar 2026 |
 Crony Akatsuki | what are the benefits of zfs over btrfs? I'm curious because for me btrfs with subvolumes and compression just works for my needs | 08:20:35 |
| magic_rb | Zfs is actually stable and doesnt randomly fail. Btrfs has a track record of randomly keeling over. Though to be fair, its gotten better and its mostly related to using any of the fancy features of btrfs. Like raid0/1/5/6. Still, zfs is more trustworthy and get more active development. On nixos the fact that its out of tree plays no role as its trivial to install | 08:39:31 |
| magic_rb | I would recommend you go with zfs. I know people that consider data gone if its not on zfs | 08:40:23 |
