Thanks! I'll try to relocate it this way. Regards, Sergey
2014-07-28 14:41 GMT+04:00 Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dols...@logicblox.com>: > Hi, > > On 28/07/14 11:54, Sergey Mironov wrote: > >> Hi, List! Looks like I've made not wise choice of locating /nix/store >> in root (/) partition on my build server. Now all 'no space left on a >> device' are my friends. Is it possible to relocate /nix/store's >> contents into /home (located on a much larger partition) without >> re-installing the entire system? In other words, I want my /nix/store >> to be a symlink pointing to /home/nix/store. Is it safe to just boot >> from the CD, move /nix/store to /home and drop the symlink ? > > /nix/store or /nix cannot be symlinks, but they can be bind mounts. So you can > boot from the CD, move /nix to /home, and add an entry like: > > fileSystems."/nix" = > { device = "/home/nix"; > fsType = "none"; > options = "bind"; > }; > > to configuration.nix. Also set the neededForBoot option on the /home > filesystem > to true, otherwise it won't be mounted in stage 1 of the boot, and the bind > mount will fail. > > You can then run nixos-install to rebuild the configuration (which shouldn't > take long since the only change was to fileSystems). > > You can probably also do this without the CD by: 1) updating configuration.nix > as above; 2) running "nixos-rebuild boot"; 3) copying /nix to /home/nix; 4) > rebooting. > > -- > Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev