I have been using linux about 4 years now and in that time i've done a bunch of installs. Lately i've been setting up luks and lvm, but each time i install a distro ive set up bodhi and nixos with this setup but the issue i have is that each time ive done it i've had to follow a guide.

For both these distros there werent official docs on how to do it but found guides on github. For both i had to try multiple guides and reinstall multiple times.

While ive learned a lot doing this i feel like i have too heavily leaned on the guides and would not be able to install it without a guide.

I understand the basic lvm commands to set up pvs, lvs, etc but for example when installing nix i had to reinstall twice because i didnt set up the preLVM setting and the luks device uuid. But if i hadnt found a guide that showed it i never would have known to do it.

What resources can you recommended to really understanding how to properly set all the different types of partitioning schemes (gpt, mbr, lvm, luks, etc, etc)