From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Giovanni Biscuolo Subject: Re: Installer, recommended store size and hardware detection Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:47:59 +0100 Message-ID: <87mun9gehs.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> References: <874l9hgg3h.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47557) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grOUj-0001kL-1o for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:48:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grOUg-00020y-RK for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:48:08 -0500 Received: from ns13.heimat.it ([46.4.214.66]:38870) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grOUf-0001xU-U7 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:48:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <874l9hgg3h.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Pierre Neidhardt , help-guix --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Pierre Neidhardt writes: [...] > Question for everyone: > > How much do you allocate to the store? 50GB on a dedicated LV on LVM [1] (on a foreign distro) it's very useful when you can _live_ resize your volumes (having enough free space to allocate): LVM (still not supported in Guix System) and btrfs are our friends [...] > I've tried with 25GB: it's way too painful. too small for your usecase? [...] > Of course, we all make different uses of Guix and the rate at which the > store gets filled may vary a lot from user to user. It seems hard to > "recommend" something universal. yes, *if* recommendation should be provided, we should at least figure out useful classed of use cases (e.g.: Gnome desktop with "office" applications, guix development workstation,...) maybe it's not worth the effort? [...] > I'm not sure we need to partition at all: is it a problem to use the > full disk? I need separate volumes for my systems, they are life-savers for me :-) [...] > On a similar note, what do you think about adding hardware detection to > the installation process and help create a config.scm with the right > values for a specific machine? > > Lewo from the Nix community told me they have hardware detection in > their config generation script: > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/c01eeda8e96c0fa63eb23df3df51403cc= 0589672/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-generate-config.pl > > What do you people think? it would be great to have a similar feature in Guix (I still cannot help, sorry) Thanks! Giovanni [1] actually I install guix via https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh (that exits when it find an already created /gnu folder) *then* copy /gnu content to a LV temporary mounted as /gnu-LV, then "mv /gnu /gnu-ORIG" and finally mount the LV as /gnu... this does the trick =2D-=20 Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEERcxjuFJYydVfNLI5030Op87MORIFAlxa858ACgkQ030Op87M ORJWgw/9GLc5uEyKbpqLuQDvp19/Bswr9mjIb59//LUEghPD2hG7jz1hrsLmAoUZ LSbp5Q2DfKZH7CqXBOi0J0tEalrvbetNQvujrrQDvfDWHnaON9N5codz1aEVmNDw 3oDzcMVjgQ1ZZE6drdbdvpfy05k3O/OYNEMoflgevUoQ9ZBhcsd9N0kcjakvSqSU 0iwdvuDJGOvgk92Teg8qIEtCItHoW6/sLgdbiutXyKquacljailTtJHoNiChiyxJ +mD2KSPAddwr7DgLe2Qis/AHiMm3LcswcspN6KcxId7Et7G23ggLaxlulzb+boD0 J9NGJ7mRngqkH/C4F1zoRBg7IgID0Pkj6R1KL6VoV54QZqKUyaxsYSQZ2FSyJs6F EO9U1LjfCTQ3CX4w0M6qh5lWq42D1hBcflkLLJVO6+0uQVf4deOm0Esft9gtuEH0 plY2fJwNKpMRHMrWFXtXa8YyOc7iSJoPRcvDRV+p5Jlypz8Jri9zfXcYlf5EVp9i Zoa8Ro+h2dl9xRKdHePH+xoahu9rGRpMn6lfvSTDySrN8a2rSpxQNlI6mUDRIb+P 1FFnQ+/xRmAOLWQVgO5d5sU83lnT7wX6frZisxGJiOR+AEPRMJgkm/q3CvVeg6mX Ck2fP210z4yzDStFN186Nwo1LNmzJqbBX9+tL8RXwjDN0pCL7JI= =HBFP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--