Re: Guix system on AQEMU HD fills

[Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com>]

Thanks Owen. I used the .iso image in the QEMU install. I will Run `guix 
gc -d` to delete all old generations. I have no need to rollback (yet!) 
I'm not using VBox as I have in the past, wanting to using FOSS apps. 
I'll keep track of disk usage. Luckily this is experimental and not a 
production set-up.

On 3/18/24 04:48PM, Owen T. Heisler wrote:
> On 3/18/24 15:56, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
>> I've been installing and reinstalling the latest GUIX OS in AQEMU.
>
>> yesterday I got a warning from my Ubuntu host that my HD was 
>> dangerously low.
>
>> I saw that my ~/.aqemu folder was packed and the culprit was the 
>> virtual GUIX machine which had far exceeded its 25GB capacity.
>
> If you created a 25 GB hard drive with AQEMU (that's a QEMU front-end, 
> right?), then the `guix.qcow2` hard drive image shouldn't get much 
> bigger than 25 GB. However if AQEMU is using qcow2 snapshots, then the 
> image will grow as much as necessary to keep all the snapshot data.
>
>> It also seems that with each "guix pull" or "guix refresh" or "guix 
>> upgrade" more and more data is being stored.
> Run `guix gc -d` to delete all old generations. You will not be able 
> to roll-back the Guix system to a previous generation once you have 
> deleted it.
>
>> Why that affects my host OS, I don't know
> Yeah, that seems odd. The only thing that comes to my mind is qcow2 
> snapshots as I mentioned above.
>
>
--