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spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -2.79 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=gnu.org header.s=fencepost-gnu-org header.b=aaL7ymOb; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 79ADB29BEE X-Spam-Score: -2.79 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn1.migadu.com X-TUID: 3qWZifvYqjCL Hello Leo, > This is new. I think the issue was introduced with recent work on (gnu > system image), perhaps from this commit: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=da924796744bbb7b035a986fe5d28d8d613ff6af Before that commit "guix system vm" was always producing volatile images, regardless of the "--volatile" argument. The new behaviour is to only produce volatile images if "--volatile" is passed. This means that by default, "disk-image-rw" are created in /tmp so that QEMU can operate on RW images. The side effect is that those big images can fill /tmp pretty quickly as you noticed. We could use the ~/.cache/guix directory instead to store those images. We could also make "--volatile" the default and introduce a "--persistent" argument instead. That would restore the previous "guix system vm" behaviour. WDYT? Thanks, Mathieu