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Andrew Tropin

A week ago I migrated to new 2tb ssd:

It's so much pleasure that I don't need to garbage collect anything even if I build a few 2.5GB ISOs in a row and a few more things at the same time.

The migration was a breeze, because I just need to copy a few personal files, but the of my system is reproducible.

Lesson I learned during re-installation of the OS: Don't use a separate partition for /var with Guix, shepherd will break himself during the boot.

#rde #guix #guile

28 Dec 2023 at 13:43 | Open on fosstodon.org
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Efraim Flashner

@abcdw
What file system are you using? I know btrfs must support having /var on another subvolume since that's what the Berlin build farm does.

You should know once the store grows above about 1tb I've found running 'guix gc' slows down.

#rde #guix #guile

28 Dec 2023 at 16:17 | Open on tooot.im
Andrew Tropin
Efraim Flashner

@abcdw

Oh, my bad. I didn't remember it being /var/cache specifically. I guess /gnu and /var/guix really do have to be in the same subvolume.

28 Dec 2023 at 16:28 | Open on tooot.im
Andrew Tropin

@efraim the problem with /var subvolume is that root-sheperd remounts /var after it created its own file in /var/run and after /var mount they obviously dissappears and breaks shepherd.

28 Dec 2023 at 16:34 | Open on fosstodon.org
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