Bootstrapping NixOS on AWS with extra data volumes
Bootstrapping NixOS on AWS with extra data volumes fails because disks are unformatted and /nix is not on the right volume.
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4 public reports · first reported 9 October 2026 · last reported 9 October 2026
What's going wrong
People setting up NixOS machines on Amazon EC2 with additional data volumes, such as a separate volume for /nix and another for /home, report that the first deployment fails.
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