From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?B?VG9tw6HFoSDEjGVjaA==?= Subject: Re: Store on separate partition Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:30:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20160825143037.hor76u6kysexqlhk@venom> References: <7toa4iir1p.fsf@gmail.com> <87pooyy3zq.fsf@gmail.com> <7tfupuihaa.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="75mmhg5cbklslo6n" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcvg6-0001CH-Bv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:30:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcvg1-0008Dz-Dz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:30:45 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45108) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcvg1-0008De-6b for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:30:41 -0400 Received: from relay2.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BECAAF2 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7tfupuihaa.fsf@gmail.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" To: guix-devel@gnu.org --75mmhg5cbklslo6n Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:37:49PM +0200, Carlos S=E1nchez de La Lama wrote: >>> my (not very big) root partition is almost full, even after >>> garbage-collecting. I am trying to move the store to a separate >>> partition, but this is problematic as you need the store at boot time >>> for the system utilities (and to mount partitions, actually). >> >> I tried to do it recently but failed. My understanding is that it's >> impossible, but I may be wrong. > >After giving it some more thinking, I also think this is not >possible. The kernel image itself is in the store (and must be, because >you can have several system generations, each using a different >kernel). Same with initrd images. > >I have finally moved the whole root to a bigger disk, not much different >to moving the store as root size (aside from the store) is rather small. I think it is impossible now but to achieve that you'd need only: 1] to store /gnu/store on separate partition (so grub will find it with its= --search) 2] and have some bind mounts ready in initrd stage. It would be nice to have more flexibility in this area. Best regards, S_W --75mmhg5cbklslo6n Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXvwEIAAoJEEoj40+gM0NtREsP/01o8DAaK47e1qfe7QxWQmj6 anmuizpHsshg0njtb2+/nvMVBoMKoC+ArIPRm/M9UccrWsOdzkcE4JKicsz4YtU2 5ZdPLVMZQEKaiTg3Nw3l/HquarUo+uYdt6s51OxOQWNoI7EEA0xvCcZVKk2qKU7L el3oL3KKqr4WRS/lIi4iJarW70K1F06nT8O3gMd9mJd2bYv4w9tpUWKHXGwJqydC bJA1KXR70WDEKGitU2nk2vhoCQqFrv0MaCj5BkLOuH90c1NwObX7NciCX0IMgcKr orjM+VT3kfLUW2l0FBuIoo73KafYAty7NsuDaROoWv35ARwgURnZC3R56BxQVJIM gHw7GP/fLh0CxY+sohb/54BWzhNW6rR3wzVzXYwfj55JMSpwDXHFw2GFAsNnUH2w xw4pKXro+1qXoxeM07IDEpkTE4XiLPLPMy3gx+AkTRPv1EJS2aiwQWvCCNEzLRi7 k1ACreQx+fH4kpsv/St7fSBSAtkEJJn3J8VaMfDe+HnzFkVPAK8Mc0C2bXtsym4E Up9j1m7Z/nJkTXawhAwAs/5SwwMQuqqETNG74UDk4uM8IwbGH6pglf8y6GPtkPP3 2cEP/Xuu4ksWVq7/qnoYDNgFPifbdQZWfHiyWrozohmk6iJoxk57EGGlea0LF2Jl dNZx8qJLieWVstcupZxj =z9bh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --75mmhg5cbklslo6n--