Re: Move /gnu/store to another filesystem

[Giovanni Biscuolo]

Hello Théo

Théo Maxime Tyburn <theo.tyburn@gmail.com> writes:

> I figured out where the problem came from. I forgot to use the -p option
> while copying the store with cp. Because of this some scheme files where
> newer than their compiled counterpart, which forced to compile them anew.
>
> Just did everything again with cp -p and it worked like a charm.

Great!  IMHO it'd be useful for other users to have a "Move store to
another device" section in our cookbook: would you like to try to add a
patch to it and see if maintainers accept it?  I can help if needed.

[...]

>> If you have the new /gnu/store as a btrfs subvolume, you may need to
>> tell `mount` which subvolume to mount there.

good point Kaelyn!

[...]

Happy Hacking! Gio'

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Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures

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