classy-giraffe/easy-arch

easy-arch is a bash script that boostraps Arch Linux with sane opinionated defaults.

• BTRFS snapshots: you will have a resilient set up that will automatically takes snapshots of your volumes based on a weekly schedule
• LUKS2 encryption: your data will live on a LUKS2 partition protected by a password
• ZRAM: we use ZRAM which is a modern technology that allows us to use ram as a disk and swaps on it which is way faster than traditional swap
• systemd-oomd: systemd-oomd makes sure that OOM killing happens in the userspace rather than resorting to the traditional OOM killing which happens at kernel level
• VM additions: we aim to provide guest tools if we detect that you're installing Arch Linux on a virtualized environment such as VMWare Workstation, VirtualBox, QEMU-KVM etc...
• User setup: you'll be walked through the process of setting up a default user account with sudo permissions

One-step Automated Install (shorter)

bash <(curl -sL bit.ly/easy-arch)

Alternative Methods (manual)

wget -O easy-arch.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/classy-giraffe/easy-arch/main/easy-arch.sh
chmod +x easy-arch.sh
bash easy-arch.sh

Partitions layout

The partitions layout is simple and it consists of only two partitions:

1. A FAT32 partition (512MiB), mounted at /boot/ as ESP.
2. A LUKS2 encrypted container, which takes the rest of the disk space, mounted at / as root.

BTRFS subvolumes layout

The BTRFS subvolumes layout follows the traditional and suggested layout used by Snapper, you can find it here.