Can AI do this job?

[mattikins]

I am curious whether the AI large language models can give answers to some of the questions I bring to user forums. So I asked AI (Brave's Leo) how I would do the following prompt:
How do I install Debian 12 on an existing LUKs encrypted LVM with `/home`, `/root`, and `/swap` subvolumes, leaving the `/home` subvolume unformatted?
This is the script it generated:
1. Boot into a live Debian environment.
2. Open a terminal and identify the encrypted partition with `

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lsblk

` or `

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fdisk -l

`.
3. Decrypt the partition with `

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cryptsetup open /dev/sdaX luks-home

` (replace sdaX with your partition).
4. Identify the LVM volume group with `

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sudo vgscan

` and activate it with `

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sudo vgchange -a y luks-home

`.
5. Mount the root partition:
- `

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sudo mount /dev/mapper/luks-home-root /mnt

`
6. Create a new ext4 filesystem for the `/home` subvolume:
- `

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sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/luks-home-home

`
7. Create a new swap partition (optional):
- `

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sudo mkswap /dev/mapper/luks-home-swap

`
8. Install Debian 12 as usual, but exclude the `

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/home

` partition during the installation process.
9. After installation, update the system and mount the encrypted partition:
- `

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sudo mount /dev/mapper/luks-home /home

`
10.

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Chroot

into the new system and create a new

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initramfs

with the encrypted partition:
- `

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sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

`
11. Reboot the system.
Remember to replace sdaX with your actual partition names.

How did it do? Will following this script brick my computer?

[sunrat]

Moved to Off-Topic as it's discussion rather than a support question.
I wouldn't trust AI for something like that. You can try it and report back.

[cds60601]

Agreed - if you have the means to do so, it may take additional time to find out, try this within a VM.
Of course, this may be easier said than done. But at least its an option to consider while still keeping your original install left untouched.
Interesting though, that forums "could" be replaced by AI.

[donald]

lol you guys ignore the AI part, look at the structure.

The syntax is surprisingly correct for the task you asked of it. A nuance here or there from experience would tune a bit better but the commands and order are 'correct'.

In time an AI can perform to better scale some of these tasks that seem complicated, you think some script professional in your DC didn't write the same script when you upgraded from your starting dedicated server to a more robust server?

Pause server, snapshot, backup, (image) expand partitions, checkfs, remove pause. Same un-difference, just done faster with no employee typos. (I'd be out of a job in picoseconds )

[dlu2021]

6. Create a new ext4 filesystem for the `/home` subvolume:
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sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/luks-home-home

`

If the goal is to keep the home partition untouched, isn't step 6 incorrect?

[dilberts_left_nut]

"AI" can only tell you what someone else has already written.