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

• BTRFS snapshots: you will have a resilient setup that 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: the setup use ZRAM which aims to replace traditional swap partition/files by making the system snappier
• systemd-oomd: systemd-oomd will take care of OOM situations at userspace level rather than at kernel level, making the system less prone to kernel crashes
• VM additions: the script automatically provides guest tools if it detects that a virtualized environment such as VMWare Workstation, VirtualBox, QEMU-KVM is being used
• User account setup: a default user account with sudo permissions can be configured in order to avoid hassle in the post installation phase
• CI checks: ShellChecker checks every PR periodically for bash syntax errors, bad coding practices, etc...

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 solely of two partitions:

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

Partition Number	Label	Size	Mountpoint	Filesystem
1	ESP	1 GiB	/boot/	FAT32
2	Cryptroot	Rest of the disk	/	BTRFS Encrypted (LUKS2)

BTRFS subvolumes layout

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

Subvolume Number	Subvolume Name	Mountpoint
1	@	/
2	@home	/home
3	@root	/root
4	@srv	/srv
5	@snapshots	/.snapshots
6	@var_log	/var/log
7	@var_pkgs	/var/cache/pacman/pkg