{"id":877,"date":"2024-06-27T00:08:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T00:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/arch-linux-text-mode-installer-introduces-experimental-lvm-support\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T06:19:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T06:19:04","slug":"arch-linux-text-mode-installer-introduces-experimental-lvm-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/arch-linux-text-mode-installer-introduces-experimental-lvm-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Arch Linux Text-Mode Installer Introduces Experimental LVM Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Archinstall 2.8.1 text-mode installer for the popular Arch Linux distribution was released today as a significant update introducing initial LVM support and many other improvements.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Archinstall 2.8.1 is the first release of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/arch-linux-installer-archinstall-2-8-increase-esp-size-to-1-gib-fixes-more-bugs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arch Linux\u2019s installer<\/a><\/strong> to offer LVM support, which will be available when choosing a default partitioning layout. While you can now install Arch Linux with an LVM partition layout, the devs note that LVM support is considered experimental at this stage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Apart from LVM support, the new Arch Linux installer also introduces a Finnish translation, adds a few more applications to the Hyprland desktop profile, renames the \u201cKde\u201d profile to \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/kde-plasma-6-1-1-desktop-environment-released-with-various-bug-fixes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KDE Plasma<\/a><\/strong>\u201d \/ \u201cPlasma\u201d, changes the default root partition size from 20GB up to 50GB maximum, sets root partition type as GUID, and uses VCS as <code>pyparted<\/code> version lock.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Other noteworthy changes in this release include using the current keyboard layout instead of the US layout by default, updating the mkinitcpio.conf hooks for upstream consistency, skipping devices that raise a <code>DiskException<\/code> and log the exception message, and adding better mypy coverage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Another interesting change in Archinstall 2.8.1 is the initial work on implementing a new menu-based interface using curses, which should probably make installing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/arch-linux-based-cachyos-adds-handheld-edition-and-t2-macbook-support\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arch Linux<\/a><\/strong> a little more attractive for newcomers. This will implement things like displaying the preview menu on either bottom, right, or top, multi-column menus, as well as overlay windows.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCurrently archinstall is using simple-term-menu for rendering the interactive menu. Although the library does its job, it is also somewhat limited in terms of customization. Information can only be shown from a top to bottom approach and there is no way of utilizing other spaces on the screen to be more flexible,\u201d said developer Daniel Girtler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure>\n<p><figcaption><em>New menu implementation with curses \u2013 image credits Daniel Girtler<\/em><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><p>Other than that, the new Archinstall release fixes various bugs to improve the locale generator, handling of missing free spaces and deleted partitions, handling of unknown device\/partition types, null fs_type of partition, and unmounting of all partitions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Several core functions have been refactored, including <code>suggest_single_disk_layout()<\/code>, <code>format()<\/code>, and <code>umount()<\/code> for a better and more reliable installation. It also converts the partition path string to a Path object.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For more details, check out the changelog on the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/archlinux\/archinstall\/releases\/tag\/v2.8.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">project\u2019s GitHub page<\/a><\/em>, from where you can also download Archinstall 2.8.1 if you fancy compiling from sources. But that shouldn\u2019t be the case because Archinstall 2.8.1 is already available in Arch Linux\u2019s stable repositories and can be downloaded and installed with a single command.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><pre><code>sudo pacman -Sy archinstall<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><i>Last updated 7 hours ago<\/i><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archinstall 2.8.1 text-mode installer for the popular Arch Linux distribution was released today as a significant update introducing initial LVM support and many other improvements. 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