From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Subject: Re: New Install Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:24:40 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1324985136.1923036.1442568280519.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <87a8slrsm0.fsf@igalia.com> Reply-To: Richard Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56993) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcrxA-0007Jk-RC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 05:27:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zcrx7-0007yg-Hd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 05:27:36 -0400 Received: from nm37-vm1.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com ([98.136.216.236]:60172) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zcrx7-0007xt-7O for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 05:27:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87a8slrsm0.fsf@igalia.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" > From: Andy Wingo > It is, if you want to share /home but not not /etc, /var, and so on. Sharing was never of interest - I just wanted to have the safety net of having another bootable OS. In the end I have decided to wipe Slackware and completely embrace the GNU... That leads to another question. What are appropriate partition sizes when using guix? From my brief reading it seems that guix will be storing lots of data below /gnu/store. For Slackware I just use a 5GB root partition and have never needed more. Should I infer that guix will be more greedy for disk space? > > In practice you'd be obliged to move to grub. Fair enough. May I suggest that at some point (many, many months from now) it might be worth re-visiting that idea? I expect that I am not the only user who might consider multibooting and who has an established boot system. Again, many thanks, Richard.