Re: mounting a directory in a system container

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 02:35:10PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> I really like the --expose and --share options from guix system vm but I
> really would prefer to use a system container (mostly for the shared
> resources). I tried adding the directory in the file-systems section of
> my OS-config but it just failed to mount. Any suggestions?
> 
> (file-systems (cons
>                (file-system
>                 (device "/data")
>                 (mount-point "/data")
>                 (type "none")
>                 (flags '(read-only bind-mount))
>                 (check? #f)
>                 (create-mount-point? #t))
>                %base-file-systems)
> 
> I also added (service udev-service-type) to my services.
> 

Thanks everyone for being my rubber ducky! On a whim I checked the
manual and it mentioned --share and --expose for containers also and it
worked for me. It would appear that the 'guix system --help' text isn't
complete.


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