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I wrote a Guide on how to install Arch Linux with BTRFS and (almost) Full Disk encrytion (veprogames.github.io)

submitted 1 year ago by vepro@lemmy.world to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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This covers obtaining the ISO, connecting to Wi-Fi, partitioning, formatting, mounting, installing, setting up encryption and installing GRUB, in one article. Also includes some tips, like quickly mounting from install medium. Maybe this helps someone.

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[–] g7s@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly, the best thing I learned was: Need to fix your system through the install medium? Save yourself keystrokes of mounting by just mounting the root subvolume (to /mnt) and then type: mount -aT /mnt/etc/fstab --target-prefix /mnt. This reads your fstab and mounts everything for you.

Thank you so much for it :D

[–] wviana@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice birds part. Where did you learned that?

[–] vepro@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean with "birds part"? Learned from YouTube Videos, Arch Wiki, and experimenting on bare metal and in Virtualbox. Hardest part for me when installing Arch 1st time was partitioning and bootloaders

[–] wviana@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry. It should be BTRFS

[–] vepro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It was from a GitHub Gist but idk which exactly it was, there are multiple. Keep in mind some files need to have copy-on-write deactivated (swapfile, VirtualBox disk images). The Arch Wiki mentions when copy-on-write should be turned off for a file

[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With btrfs and zfs virtually being neck and neck in terms of capabilities, is there a reason or application where one should be chosen over the other?

[–] vojel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google ZFS licensing and you know why choose btrfs over zfs

[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com -1 points 1 year ago

Okay, so it came down to a licensing issue rather than one that is technical. I can definitely get behind that as somebody that will always value true open source, even when then the proprietary solution might be the better one in the short term. Something that is open source can only get better.