# A simple external HDD filesystem primarily used as a persistent live # installer. We're using btrfs since we don't have any significant work with # other systems for now so we can afford to do this. { disk ? "/dev/sda", ... }: { disko.devices = { disk.live-installer = { device = disk; type = "disk"; content = { type = "gpt"; partitions = { # You can't really have a btrfs-layered boot so this'll have to do. ESP = { priority = 1; start = "0"; end = "256MiB"; type = "EF00"; content = { type = "filesystem"; mountpoint = "/boot"; format = "vfat"; }; }; # Just a tiny swap partition. This should have a remaining budget of # (X - 7GB) for our custom data. To allows us to have a buffer which # is especially useful for our potato laptop. swap = { start = "-6GiB"; end = "-0"; type = "8200"; content = { type = "swap"; randomEncryption = true; }; }; # The end-all-be-all partition. Contains the treasure trove of data. # Be mindful! root = { size = "100%"; type = "8300"; content = { type = "btrfs"; extraArgs = [ "-f" ]; subvolumes = { "/root" = { mountOptions = [ "compress=zstd:6" ]; mountpoint = "/"; }; "/home".mountpoint = "/home"; "/nix" = { mountOptions = [ "compress=zstd:6" "noatime" "noacl" ]; mountpoint = "/nix"; }; # Where the data where will be stored. "/data".mountpoint = "/data"; }; }; }; }; }; }; }; }