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By my understanding, unnecessary due to unmounting at the end of the instruction. Has lead to unstable and error-spewing ZFS setups, as discussed in this issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/214871
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System Configuration
======================
.. contents:: Table of Contents
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#. Generate initial system configuration::
nixos-generate-config --root /mnt
#. Import ZFS-specific configuration::
sed -i "s|./hardware-configuration.nix|./hardware-configuration.nix ./zfs.nix|g" /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
#. Configure hostid::
tee -a /mnt/etc/nixos/zfs.nix <<EOF
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{ boot.supportedFilesystems = [ "zfs" ];
networking.hostId = "$(head -c 8 /etc/machine-id)";
boot.kernelPackages = config.boot.zfs.package.latestCompatibleLinuxPackages;
EOF
#. Configure bootloader for both legacy boot and UEFI boot and mirror bootloader::
sed -i '/boot.loader/d' /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
sed -i '/services.xserver/d' /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
tee -a /mnt/etc/nixos/zfs.nix <<-'EOF'
boot.loader.efi.efiSysMountPoint = "/boot/efi";
boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = false;
boot.loader.generationsDir.copyKernels = true;
boot.loader.grub.efiInstallAsRemovable = true;
boot.loader.grub.enable = true;
boot.loader.grub.version = 2;
boot.loader.grub.copyKernels = true;
boot.loader.grub.efiSupport = true;
boot.loader.grub.zfsSupport = true;
boot.loader.grub.extraPrepareConfig = ''
mkdir -p /boot/efis
for i in /boot/efis/*; do mount $i ; done
mkdir -p /boot/efi
mount /boot/efi
'';
boot.loader.grub.extraInstallCommands = ''
ESP_MIRROR=$(mktemp -d)
cp -r /boot/efi/EFI $ESP_MIRROR
for i in /boot/efis/*; do
cp -r $ESP_MIRROR/EFI $i
done
rm -rf $ESP_MIRROR
'';
boot.loader.grub.devices = [
EOF
for i in $DISK; do
printf " \"$i\"\n" >>/mnt/etc/nixos/zfs.nix
done
tee -a /mnt/etc/nixos/zfs.nix <<EOF
];
EOF
#. Mount datasets with zfsutil option::
sed -i 's|fsType = "zfs";|fsType = "zfs"; options = [ "zfsutil" "X-mount.mkdir" ];|g' \
/mnt/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix
#. Set root password::
rootPwd=$(mkpasswd -m SHA-512 -s)
Declare password in configuration::
tee -a /mnt/etc/nixos/zfs.nix <<EOF
users.users.root.initialHashedPassword = "${rootPwd}";
}
EOF
#. Install system and apply configuration::
nixos-install -v --show-trace --no-root-passwd --root /mnt
#. Unmount filesystems::
umount -Rl /mnt
zpool export -a
#. Reboot::
reboot