From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Subject: Re: Change free space warning threshold from relative to absolute
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 07:36:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2AED70CE-6DB2-46B7-AEFD-7CC6F7D1EBAD@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhddtxmy.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>
Le 20 février 2020 04:29:25 GMT-05:00, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> a écrit :
>Hi!
>
>Currently we display
>
>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>guix package: warning: only 4.9% of free space available on /gnu/store
>hint: Consider deleting old profile generations and collecting garbage,
>along
>these lines:
>
> guix gc --delete-generations=1m
>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>when the drive has less than 5% free space.
>
>I believe the 5% threshold to be not so relevant. Indeed, on a 1 TiB
>partition, 5% is 50 GiB. I would not worry to much about deleting
>generations then!
>
>What about changing the threshold to 5 GiB?
>
>By the way, this reminds me of the same Windows XP misfeature that
>bugged
>millions of users for years :D
Well, I'd always receive the warning on one of my systems with only 20 GB of disk. Maybe make it 5GB or 5%, whichever is lower?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-20 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-20 9:29 Change free space warning threshold from relative to absolute Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-20 12:36 ` Julien Lepiller [this message]
2020-02-20 12:45 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-22 10:50 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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