From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Store on separate partition Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:15:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87poory2j4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7toa4iir1p.fsf@gmail.com> <87pooyy3zq.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53999) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bePDy-0005wM-Sm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:15:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bePDt-0004dL-Sr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:15:50 -0400 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 Hello, Alex Kost skribis: > Carlos S=C3=A1nchez de La Lama (2016-08-24 10:06 +0300) wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> 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). >> >> Is there a known way to achieve this? > > I tried to do it recently but failed. My understanding is that it's > impossible, but I may be wrong. It would be interesting to fix it. In theory there=E2=80=99s no reason why= it shouldn=E2=80=99t work (you need to mark the /gnu/store file system as =E2=80=98needed-for-boot?=E2=80=99.) If you or Carlos could try it and report details to bug-guix@gnu.org, we could start from there. Thanks! Ludo=E2=80=99.