diff --git a/hosts/lab/configuration.nix b/hosts/lab/configuration.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index f0de599..0000000
--- a/hosts/lab/configuration.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, ... }:
-{
-  # Generated by nodeiwest host init.
-  imports = [
-    ./disko.nix
-    ./hardware-configuration.nix
-  ];
-
-  networking.hostName = "lab";
-  networking.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
-
-  time.timeZone = "UTC";
-
-  boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
-  boot.loader.grub = {
-    enable = true;
-    efiSupport = true;
-    device = "nodev";
-  };
-
-  nodeiwest.ssh.userCAPublicKeys = [
-    "ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIE6c2oMkM7lLg9qWHVgbrFaFBDrrFyynFlPviiydQdFi openbao-user-ca"
-  ];
-
-  nodeiwest.tailscale.openbao = {
-    enable = true;
-  };
-
-  system.stateVersion = "25.05";
-}
diff --git a/hosts/lab/disko.nix b/hosts/lab/disko.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 377830e..0000000
--- a/hosts/lab/disko.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  ...
-}:
-{
-  # Generated by nodeiwest host init.
-  # Replace the disk only if the provider exposes a different primary device.
-  disko.devices = {
-    disk.main = {
-      type = "disk";
-      device = lib.mkDefault "/dev/sda    11";
-      content = {
-        type = "gpt";
-        partitions = {
-          ESP = {
-            priority = 1;
-            name = "ESP";
-            start = "1MiB";
-            end = "512MiB";
-            type = "EF00";
-            content = {
-              type = "filesystem";
-              format = "vfat";
-              mountpoint = "/boot";
-              mountOptions = [ "umask=0077" ];
-            };
-          };
-          swap = {
-            size = "4GiB";
-            content = {
-              type = "swap";
-              resumeDevice = true;
-            };
-          };
-          root = {
-            size = "100%";
-            content = {
-              type = "filesystem";
-              format = "ext4";
-              mountpoint = "/";
-            };
-          };
-        };
-      };
-    };
-  };
-}
diff --git a/hosts/lab/hardware-configuration.nix b/hosts/lab/hardware-configuration.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f6bc7b..0000000
--- a/hosts/lab/hardware-configuration.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{ ... }:
-{
-  # Placeholder generated by nodeiwest host init.
-  # nixos-anywhere will replace this with the generated hardware config.
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/helpers/__pycache__/cli.cpython-313.pyc b/pkgs/helpers/__pycache__/cli.cpython-313.pyc
index 4a14814..b6559c5 100644
Binary files a/pkgs/helpers/__pycache__/cli.cpython-313.pyc and b/pkgs/helpers/__pycache__/cli.cpython-313.pyc differ
diff --git a/pkgs/helpers/cli.py b/pkgs/helpers/cli.py
index 486cd3f..0276e4f 100644
--- a/pkgs/helpers/cli.py
+++ b/pkgs/helpers/cli.py
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ def validate_host_name(name: str) -> None:
 
 
 def probe_host(ip: str, user: str) -> ProbeFacts:
-    lsblk_cmd = "lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,TYPE,MODEL,FSTYPE,PTTYPE,MOUNTPOINTS"
+    lsblk_cmd = "lsblk -P -o NAME,SIZE,TYPE,MODEL,FSTYPE,PTTYPE,MOUNTPOINTS"
     boot_cmd = "test -d /sys/firmware/efi && echo UEFI || echo BIOS"
     root_cmd = "findmnt -no SOURCE /"
     swap_cmd = "cat /proc/swaps"
@@ -635,28 +635,25 @@ def probe_host(ip: str, user: str) -> ProbeFacts:
 
 
 def parse_lsblk_output(output: str) -> list[dict[str, str]]:
-    lines = [line.rstrip("\n") for line in output.splitlines() if line.strip()]
-    if len(lines) < 2:
+    lines = [line.strip() for line in output.splitlines() if line.strip()]
+    if not lines:
         raise NodeiwestError("Unexpected lsblk output: not enough lines to parse.")
 
-    header = lines[0]
     columns = ["NAME", "SIZE", "TYPE", "MODEL", "FSTYPE", "PTTYPE", "MOUNTPOINTS"]
-    starts = []
-    for column in columns:
-        index = header.find(column)
-        if index == -1:
-            raise NodeiwestError(f"Unexpected lsblk output: missing {column} column.")
-        starts.append(index)
-    starts.append(len(header) + 20)
-
     rows: list[dict[str, str]] = []
-    for line in lines[1:]:
-        row: dict[str, str] = {}
-        for idx, column in enumerate(columns):
-            start = starts[idx]
-            end = starts[idx + 1] if idx + 1 < len(columns) else len(line)
-            row[column] = line[start:end].strip()
-        row["NAME"] = re.sub(r"^[^0-9A-Za-z]+", "", row["NAME"])
+    for line in lines:
+        tokens = shlex.split(line)
+        row = {}
+        for token in tokens:
+            if "=" not in token:
+                continue
+            key, value = token.split("=", 1)
+            row[key] = value
+        missing = [column for column in columns if column not in row]
+        if missing:
+            raise NodeiwestError(
+                f"Unexpected lsblk output: missing columns {', '.join(missing)} in line {line!r}."
+            )
         rows.append(row)
     return rows
 
diff --git a/pkgs/helpers/tests/__pycache__/test_cli.cpython-313.pyc b/pkgs/helpers/tests/__pycache__/test_cli.cpython-313.pyc
index dba937d..eb5ac18 100644
Binary files a/pkgs/helpers/tests/__pycache__/test_cli.cpython-313.pyc and b/pkgs/helpers/tests/__pycache__/test_cli.cpython-313.pyc differ
diff --git a/pkgs/helpers/tests/test_cli.py b/pkgs/helpers/tests/test_cli.py
index 50bc1db..7893708 100644
--- a/pkgs/helpers/tests/test_cli.py
+++ b/pkgs/helpers/tests/test_cli.py
@@ -46,6 +46,19 @@ class HelperCliTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertIn('device = lib.mkDefault "/dev/vda";', rendered)
         self.assertIn('size = "8GiB";', rendered)
 
+    def test_parse_lsblk_output_reads_pairs_without_smearing_columns(self) -> None:
+        output = (
+            'NAME="sda" SIZE="11G" TYPE="disk" MODEL="QEMU HARDDISK" FSTYPE="" PTTYPE="gpt" MOUNTPOINTS=""\n'
+            'NAME="sda1" SIZE="512M" TYPE="part" MODEL="" FSTYPE="vfat" PTTYPE="" MOUNTPOINTS="/boot"\n'
+        )
+        rows = cli.parse_lsblk_output(output)
+
+        self.assertEqual(rows[0]["NAME"], "sda")
+        self.assertEqual(rows[0]["SIZE"], "11G")
+        self.assertEqual(rows[0]["MODEL"], "QEMU HARDDISK")
+        self.assertEqual(rows[1]["NAME"], "sda1")
+        self.assertEqual(rows[1]["MOUNTPOINTS"], "/boot")
+
     def test_bao_kv_get_uses_explicit_kv_mount(self) -> None:
         completed = mock.Mock()
         completed.stdout = '{"data": {"data": {"CLIENT_ID": "x"}}}'