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How I reinstalled NixOS on Btrfs with an amnesiac root and backed up my data
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I've been using Arch Linux for several years now. Of course, my first installs were... blunderous, as i wanted to do full disk encryption from the get-go, and I didn't know what I was doing. After those first one or two installs, I generally settled on LVM on LUKS with a GRUB bootloader and my swap on an LVM volume, mostly because it makes it much easier to setup hibernation/suspend to disk vs, say, a swap file.
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Hey I am Shyam Jos. Welcome to my personal blog, where I write about Linux, DevOps, Cloud and Automation.
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NixOS has a great out-of-the-box support for ARM64v8 systems, but that comes with a catch: you have to use the prebuilt images to install the system, which are (obviously) not customizable, and come without OpenSSH enabled by default. Unfortunately, this requires to attach a display to the Raspberry Pi to complete an installation - not ideal! This article is the story of my journey to build a custom NixOS image for my Raspberry Pi, with all the pitfalls and errors I had to solve to eventually reach the o...
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