From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Huchler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: seperating current profile builds from old ones Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:00:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87r35ute5p.fsf@mail.de> References: <87bmwzudv1.fsf@mail.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480441824 23311 195.159.176.226 (29 Nov 2016 17:50:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:50:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 29 18:50:17 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cBmXo-00053a-QU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:50:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38478 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBmXs-0004Jb-IQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:50:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35359) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBllP-0008La-82 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:00:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBllL-00041U-Da for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:00:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=46179 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBllL-00040Q-7w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:00:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cBllE-0005J2-PJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:00:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:I5ZUPIegEgNAyLoyQs4BlwHncow= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:48:50 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111826 Archived-At: Sorry did wrote that in wrong group cancel message seems to not work over nntp / gmane? Is there a way to delete this thread? Stefan Huchler writes: > I was so cracy that I installed nixos on a 16gb chromebook. which makes > every update now very hard, because of space problems. > > So well then I thought I have this 64gb sd(hx?) card lets just move the > whole /nix/store there. But when I run a hdparm -tT performance test I > got I think 17mb/s vs 170mb/s read results sdcard vs internal flash. > > So I would prefer to not slow my complete system down by putting it > completly on the sdcard, but I would like to have some history to revert > back to something. > > Is there a way to keep only the packages form the current profile on the > internal flash and move old stuff to the sdcard? > > Or should I use some sort of raid (btrfs maybe) to spread the files over > both devises. > > I also thought about putting all on the sdcard but have a very big swap > file on the internal flash. But I think the System dont has to swap much > on my setup. so the first read would be where it counts. > > Or maybe just install for the user the packages he needs most under his > user profile, like the browser which I restart very often. > > Is there some nixos-way to do that? > > Or any suggestions would be nice. > > Thanks