From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: csanchezdll@gmail.com (Carlos =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=A1nchez?= de La Lama) Subject: Re: Store on separate partition Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:37:49 +0200 Message-ID: <7tfupuihaa.fsf@gmail.com> References: <7toa4iir1p.fsf@gmail.com> <87pooyy3zq.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46261) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcVaK-0005ab-53 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 06:39:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcVaE-0000ET-5h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 06:39:03 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com ([74.125.82.52]:36832) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcVaD-0000Dy-V3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 06:38:58 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f52.google.com with SMTP id q128so195795349wma.1 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 03:38:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87pooyy3zq.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:18:17 +0300") 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: Alex Kost Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org >> 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. Thanks! Carlos