documentation/docs/alpine-desktop-setup/installation/provisioning.md

# Provisioning

The first thing to do is to partition a disk. For this internet is required because `gptfdisk` only available in the repositories and is not included on the extended Iso.

To set it up we'll use `setup-interfaces` and `setup-apkrepos`.

```
# setup-interfaces -ar
# setup-apkrepos -c1
```

Because the Alpine Linux Iso is pretty minimal a few packages will have to be installed first:

```
# apk add cryptsetup lvm2 lsblk e2fsprogs gptfdisk
```

The drive should be partitioned using `gdisk` (or `cfdisk`). It should have atleast two partitions with one `EFI System` Partition and one `Linux filesystem` partition and look something like this:

| Number of partition | Size | Type |
|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|
| 1     |  512 MB or more | EFI System        |
| 2     |  Rest of the drive | Linux filesystem  |

Then to create the filesystem on the efi partition.

```
# mkfs.fat -F 32 -n efi /dev/<disk1>
```

And the encrypted filesystem on the root partition.

```
# cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/<disk2> --type luks2 --label luks
# cryptsetup open --type luks /dev/<disk2> pv0
```

Now to create a new LVM volume group:

```
# vgcreate vg0 /dev/mapper/pv0
```

To create partitions inside the volume group:

```
# lvcreate --name alproot -L 64G vg0
# lvcreate --name alphome -l 100%FREE vg0
```

Now the home partition fills the entirety of the volume group. These sizes should be changed depending on the needs of the user.

To create the filesystems on the logical partitions:

```
# mkfs.ext4 -L alpine-root /dev/vg0/alproot
# mkfs.ext4 -L alpine-home /dev/vg0/alphome
```

Other filesystems can also be used but `ext4` is the standard for most linux distrobutions.