Introduction

easy-arch is a script that boostrap a basic Arch Linux environment with BTRFS snapshots by using a fully automated process (UEFI only). Special thanks to classy-giraffe for creating this script.

How does it work?

1. Download an Arch Linux ISO from here
2. Flash the ISO onto an USB Flash Drive.
3. Boot the live environment.
4. Set the keyboard layout by using loadkeys.
5. Connect to the internet.
6. git clone https://github.com/uni-dos/easy-arch.
7. Type ./easy-arch/easy-arch.sh to run the install script.

Partitions layout

Partition Number	Label	Size	Mountpoint	Filesystem
1	ESP	512 MiB	/boot	FAT32
2	Root	Rest of the disk	/	BTRFS

BTRFS subvolumes layout

Subvolume Number	Subvolume Name	Mountpoint
1	@	/
2	@home	/home
3	@snapshots	/.snapshots
4	@var	/var