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Re: Installer, recommended store size and hardware detection
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Giovanni Biscuolo |
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Re: Installer, recommended store size and hardware detection |
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Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:47:59 +0100 |
Hi,
Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> 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/c01eeda8e96c0fa63eb23df3df51403cc0589672/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
--
Giovanni Biscuolo
Xelera IT Infrastructures
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