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ESP = EFI System Partition
* Required for UEFI boot
* Must be unencrypted
* FAT filesystem (vfat)
* Usually 300–600 MiB
* Mounted at /boot/efi

UEFI firmware cannot read LUKS, so if ESP is inside encrypted LVM → boot is impossible

That error message:

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means:
👉 Anaconda (installer) tried to put ESP inside encrypted LVM
👉 That is not allowed

==== On your 1 TB NVMe: ====

<syntaxhighlight>/dev/nvme0n1
├─ ESP          500 MiB   vfat     UNENCRYPTED
├─ Qubes_LUKS   150 GiB   luks2
│    └─ LVM VG "Notebook"
│         ├─ root
│         ├─ var
│         ├─ swap
│         └─ qubes-vm-pool
├─ Media        ~700 GiB  ext4     UNENCRYPTED
└─ Exchange     ~50 GiB   exFAT    UNENCRYPTED

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You already did this ✔

===== 1. Select your disk (nvme0n1) =====
# Create new partition: - Size: 500 MiB - Type: EFI System Partition - Filesystem: vfat - Mount point: /boot/efi - ❌ DO NOT encrypt

This fixes your installer error.

===== 1. Create new partition: - Size: 150 GiB - Type: Physical Volume (LVM) - ✔ Encrypt - Encryption: LUKS2 =====
# Create Volume Group: - Name: Notebook

⚠️ Do NOT manually create logical volumes inside
Qubes does this automatically.

===== You have 32 GB RAM. =====

Qubes recommendation:
* If you want hibernate → swap ≥ RAM
* If no hibernate → 8–16 GB is fine

✔ Your idea is correct:

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Steps:
* New partition
* Type: swap
* Size: 33 GiB
* ❌ unencrypted is OK (or encrypted if you want)

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* ext4
* Unencrypted
* Can be resized later ✔

====== Choose: ======
* exFAT ✅ recommended
* NTFS is worse on Linux (journaling overhead, permissions weirdness)

If exFAT doesn’t appear:
* Choose unformatted
* Reformat later with:

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">mkfs.exfat /dev/nvme0n1pX

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