| 2 Mar 2026 |
|  ·☽•Nameless☆•777 · ± changed their profile picture. | 13:08:22 |
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| indium114 | I already have NixOS installed on my system, can I set up Disko without reinstalling or formatting my drive in the process? | 13:36:32 |
 magic_rb | disko doesnt handle post installation anything, so there isnt much point | 13:45:58 |
| magic_rb | but you could, just need to match your disko config to your on disk layout, rename the partitions correctly since disko mounts by partition name and not UUID and it'll work (ive donet this in the past) | 13:46:30 |
| indium114 | I mainly want to do it for the sake of easier reproducibility, and also not needing the graphical installer anymore (since I'm terrible at disk formatting with the CLI). Also, I have been considering reinstalling on btrfs. Can disko manage btrfs subvolumes, and how would I go about doing so? | 13:56:50 |
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 focu5 | with respect to zfs, disko will create zfs datasets and volumes after installation | 06:23:43 |
| focu5 | my workflow with new apps/servers is to update the disko config with a new app specific dataset and then rerun disko with format mode | 06:24:38 |
| focu5 | it doesn't reformat non zfs partitions (it seems to fail running the tools to partition) but it will create if not exists new zfs datasets/volumes and since it's linked to nixos via the disko nixos module also update the mounting to match | 06:26:46 |
| focu5 | indium114 though i've never used btrfs or disko with btrfs, https://github.com/nix-community/disko/blob/5af7af10f14706e4095bd6bc0d9373eb097283c6/lib/types/btrfs.nix#L175 implies that subvolumes are created if it doesn't exist which suggests you could rerun disko and create new subvolumes as you expand your disko config (have not tested this) | 06:36:51 |
| magic_rb | https://github.com/numtide/disko-zfs is safer :) | 10:54:08 |
| focu5 | til thanks | 11:02:08 |
| magic_rb | If you run into anything ping me, im the guy who wrote it | 11:03:52 |
| magic_rb | (if you happen to run into a physical wall, call the ambulance, not me please) | 11:04:20 |
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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 |
