Changes to standard installation
- moved /home on a different hard-drive
- used percentages with
parted'smkpartto avoid non-aligned performance warnings.
Note: these commands are relevant to my particular machine. Specific values that may differ for you:
- HDD names (/dev/sda*, /dev/nvme0np1)
- partition sizes
- initial user's name
The HDDs in question are:
- /dev/nvme0n = 512GB SSD = OS installation
- /dev/sda = 4TB HDD = User homes
# parted, avoiding alignment issues
$ parted /dev/nvme0n
> mklabel gpt
> mkpart primary 1GiB -4%
> mkpart primary linux-swap -4% 100%
> mkpart ESP fat32 1MiB 1GiB
> set 3 boot on
$ parted /dev/sda
> mklabel gpt
> mkpart primary 0% 100%
$ mkfs.ext4 -L nixos /dev/nvme0np1
$ mkswap -L swap /dev/nvme0np2
$ mkfs.fat -F 32 -n boot /dev/nvme0np3
# separate home
$ mkfs.ext4 -L home /dev/sda1
$ mount /dev/disk/by-label/nixos /mnt
$ mkdir -p /mnt/boot
$ mount /dev/disk/by-label/boot /mnt/boot
$ mkdir -p /mnt/home
$ mount /dev/disk/by-label/home /mnt/home
$ swapon /dev/nvme0np2
$ nixos-generate-config --root /mnt
$ vim /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
$ nixos-install
$ reboot
$ sudo su -
$ passwd adam
# home-manager channel
$ nix-channel --add https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/archive/release-20.03.tar.gz home-manager
$ nix-channel --update
$ nixos-rebuild switch
$ home-manager switch
Alt+F2 > restart