arch-config

Description

A collection of scripts used to quickly deploy a minimal Arch Linux installation with ZFS on root and native encryption.

ZFS on root features

• Native encryption using aes-256-gcm
• ZStandard compression (zstd) on all datasets
• Boot environments managed with ZFSBootMenu
  • /boot directory resides on ZFS
• No swap volume/partition
• Separate system datasets

ZFS dataset configuration

The following ZFS datasets will be automatically created during installation.

Name	Mountpoint
zroot/ROOT/<root dataset name>	/
zroot/data/home	/home
zroot/data/home/<username>	/home/<username>
zroot/data/home/root	/root
zroot/var	/var
zroot/var/cache	/var/cache
zroot/var/lib	/var/lib
zroot/var/lib/libvirt	/var/lib/libvirt
zroot/var/log	/var/log

Usage

Clone the repository.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/pwyde/arch-config

Go to install script in scripts/zfs/install/ and see README.md

Download and use dotfiles repository.