From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: New Install Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 21:25:20 +0200 Message-ID: <876137sf6n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a8slrsm0.fsf@igalia.com> <1324985136.1923036.1442568280519.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.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 1Zd1Hj-0007xV-S1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:25:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zd1Hg-0002MB-NX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:25:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1324985136.1923036.1442568280519.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> (Richard's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:24:40 +0000 (UTC)") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Richard Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" Richard skribis: >> From: Andy Wingo =20 >> It is, if you want to share /home but not not /etc, /var, and so on.=20 > > Sharing was never of interest - I just wanted to have the safety net of=20 > having another bootable OS. In the end I have decided to wipe Slackware=20 > and completely embrace the GNU...=20 Well, welcome then. ;-) Depending on what safety net one is after, it=E2=80=99s possible to either = using Guix on another distro, or use GuixSD with binaries from the previous distro still available on the root file system (GuixSD overwrites /bin/sh but leaves /usr and the rest of /bin untouched.) > That leads to another question. What are appropriate partition sizes when= =20 > using guix? From my brief reading it seems that guix will be storing lots= =20 > of data below /gnu/store. For Slackware I just use a 5GB root partition=20 > and have never needed more. Should I infer that guix will be more greedy= =20 > for disk space?=20 Currently Guix is definitely more greedy than Debian, for instance, which has all these tiny binary packages made from a single source package. It may be more greedy than Slackware, so it may be best to have more than 5 GiB. >> In practice you'd be obliged to move to grub.=20 > > Fair enough. May I suggest that at some point (many, many months from now= )=20 > it might be worth re-visiting that idea? I expect that I am not the only= =20 > user who might consider multibooting and who has an established boot > system.=20 The main difficulty here is that the GRUB config file that GuixSD generates typically include references to files under /gnu/store, and one wouldn=E2=80=99t want to maintain that by hand. The other thing is that the GRUB menu generated by GuixSD includes pointers to previous generations of the OS, which allows users to roll back if needed (a convenient safety net.) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.