The deeper I get into NixOS, the more I question the choices of the NixOS community. When I wrote about partitioning disks in NixOS using Disko I provided an example of a basic linux partitioning scheme using ext4 partitions. Disko does the trick of partitioning the disk from a mostly straightforward Nix file. But what's the point of using Disko when it requires downloading nearly 200 MB of additional helpers to get the job done? Worse, you can't edit the disko.nix file later and hope to magically reconfigure or resize partitions.

About a month ago I decided to spend my free time getting more familiar with NixOS. In order to install NixOS, I needed to figure out what Linux Partitioning scheme I would use. Rather than manually partitioning, I decided I would dive straight into learning Disko the declarative disk partitioning system.

Diving into Disko ended up being quite an adventure, as I suspect much of my exploration of NixOS will be. I'm not content to simple type magic incantations into a configuration file, but rather I want to know what each magic incantation does. Let me share with you my journey, what I've learned so far, and my Disko configuration.