From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: Store on separate partition Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:18:17 +0300 Message-ID: <87pooyy3zq.fsf@gmail.com> References: <7toa4iir1p.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]:35108) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcTP7-0007oG-Ot for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 04:19:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcTP3-0007j8-HR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 04:19:21 -0400 Received: from mail-lf0-f51.google.com ([209.85.215.51]:35336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcTP3-0007j3-8i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 04:19:17 -0400 Received: by mail-lf0-f51.google.com with SMTP id f93so6462134lfi.2 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:19:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7toa4iir1p.fsf@gmail.com> ("Carlos =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=A1nchez?= de La Lama"'s message of "Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:06:58 +0200") 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: Carlos =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=A1nchez?= de La Lama Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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. --=20 Alex