On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > it is by design that you can't symlink.
If that is true (and it seems like a rather strange design; why would somebody want that?) I think that the error message should explain that rather than simply complaining that /gnu/store is "not a directory". > On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 06:51:17AM +0200, Claes Wallin wrote: > > On 07-Aug-2015 11:22 pm, "Kragen Javier Sitaker" > > <[1][email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I’m working around that by directly mounting the /gnustore partition > > > under /gnu/store now. > > > > You don't need to make a new file system and a loop mount. You could just > > make a bind mount. Indeed, but I had already made the new filesystem, for other reasons.
