disko VS nixos

It's mostly bash scripts (I know I have stockholm syndrome there) and nixos-rebuild: https://www.haskellforall.com/2023/01/announcing-nixos-rebui...

All the nix deployment tools had too much magic and broke, but nixos-rebuild always works and it's part of Nix!

Disko was great for bootstrapping servers: https://github.com/nix-community/disko

I'm now running impermanence on NixOS servers. Setting it up was slightly more work, obviously, but it's been... freeing in a sense. My confidence that I can rebuild all servers at any time and that all the peculiarities of my setup are documented have never been higher.

Rather than using a script for setup, I am using disko [0] with nixos-anywhere [1] and a small home-grown script that integrates with 1Password for deployments and it's wonderful, because everything including disk formatting is now purely declarative.

[0] https://github.com/nix-community/disko

[1] https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere

Your can also look at disko

It's a simple NixOS module that creates disk images from your disko configuration, with NixOS installed onto them.

The closest thing would be to look at the live disk implementation, but obviously it doesn't automount any files systems. I think particular to disk problems, disko is supposed to help: https://github.com/nix-community/disko but I haven't gotten around to playing with it to verify.

For actually writing partitions, there is disko (though I have not used it).

If it's just disk formatting you want to automate, then check out disko.

I guess if all else fails, ignore the instructions? Does the quickstart guide need to be updated?

Check out disko

Looking at your other comments in this thread, you may want to look at the disko tmpfs.nix example which is a simplified NixOS ❄: tmpfs as root setup and then possibly the ZFS equivalent Erase your darlings. These setups minimize the statefull information kept on disk.

This mostly minimal example seems legit, but I can't get it working.

https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos/blob/master/shitbox/disko.nix https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos/blob/master/shitbox/default.nix#L10

https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos/blob/master/shitbox/disko... this is my declarative partitioning scheme, I use mdraid, LUKS, LVM and btrfs. I also mirror my bootloader so if one drive dies I can still boot :)

Hardware raid is legacy :)

https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos here's my configuration. I'm moving a lot of packages from my system config to my home config instead still. There's also something called devshells you can use with flakes, that'll give you packages in a one time disposable shell, which is quite great.

Zellij instead of tmux (not necessarily better, but it's easier to use)

Xonsh instead of bash (because you already know Python, why learn a new horrible language?)

bat instead of cat (syntax highlights and other nice things)

exa instead of ls (just nicer)

neovim instead of vim (just better)

helix instead of neovim (just tested it, seems promising though)

nix instead of your normal package manager (it works on Mac, and essentially every Linux dist. And it's got superpowers with devshells and home-manager to bring your configuration with you everywhere)

rmtrash instead of rm (because you haven't configured btrfs snapshots yet)

starship instead of your current prompt (is fast and displays a lot of useful information in a compact way, very customizable)

mcfly instead of your current ctrl+r (search history in a nice ncurses tui)

dogdns instead of dig (nicer colors, doesn't display useless information)

amp, kakoune (more alternative text editors)

ripgrep instead of grep (it's just better yo)

htop instead of top (displays stuff nicer)

gitui/lazygit instead of git cli (at least for staging, nice with file, hunk and line staging when you have ADHD)

gron + ripgrep instead of jq when searching through JSON in the shell (so much easier)

keychain instead of ssh-agent (better cli imo)

Wrote this on the train with my phone by checking https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos/blob/master/common/defaul... for which packages I have installed myself :)

https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos/blob/1c76775bbed80057cf54...

This is my pipewire config, does the job perfectly for me, tracking unstable.