On 06/25/2014 11:01 AM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: > Hi, > > On 25/06/14 08:06, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: > >> [shana@lenalee:~]$ df | grep /dev/sdb1 >> /dev/sdb1 51475068 39467668 9369576 81% / >> >> -- reload here >> >> [shana@lenalee:~]$ df | grep /dev/sdb1 >> /dev/sdb1 51475068 39467684 9369560 81% / > > That's a 16 KB difference. It will take a long time to eat up 6 GB at that > rate...
When I was working on Yi, it was more like 200MB difference each time. >> I suppose the question I'm asking is ‘is there a way to drop into an >> existing nix-shell session?’. > > No. But the real question is: where is the disk space going? If you have an > attribute like: > > src = ./.; > > in your expression, then the entire source directory will be copied to the Nix > store every time you run nix-shell. If that's the case, you may want to use > this > hack: > > src = if lib.inNixShell then null else ./.; > > which prevents the source directory from being copied. > I think this is it, I will try it out the next time, thanks. -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
