From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: Re: Store on separate partition Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:35:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7toa4iir1p.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53845) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcSk0-0002GB-NT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 03:36:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcSjv-0004Ek-My for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 03:36:51 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:35129) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcSjv-0004Ed-HX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 03:36:47 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-f174.google.com with SMTP id v123so7376125qkh.2 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:36:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7toa4iir1p.fsf@gmail.com> 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: =?UTF-8?Q?Carlos_S=C3=A1nchez_de_La_Lama?= Cc: guix-devel Hello, > 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 did it once and it worked (if I remember right) and I think it's because all the required tools for mounting it are in the initrd... But I did it at installation time, and not afterwards. Maybe I misremember... -- Vincent Legoll