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Re: How to declare a bind mount in the "file-systems" definition?
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Matthew Brooks |
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Re: How to declare a bind mount in the "file-systems" definition? |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:10:32 -0500 |
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 18:12:10 -0400
Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:
> Looking in the manual for mentions of bind-mount I found the
> documentation of %immutable-store, which is a bind-mounted filesystem
> that exists by default in Guix System. It's implemented in
> 'gnu/systems/file-systems.scm' and hopefully provides a helpful example:
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/system/file-systems.scm?h=v1.0.1#n346
Thanks! I was able to get it working from that example!
For anyone else in the future who might want the info, here's what I did:
first I had to define these two things before the operating system section:
>(define data-drive
> (file-system
> (device (uuid "UUID goes here"))
> (mount-point "/path-to-spinning-disk-goes-here")
> (type "ext4")))
>
>(define (%tmp-directory) "/path-to-spinning-disk-goes-here/tmp")
Then, in the file-systems list I added the following:
>(file-systems (cons*
>
> ...<other drives omitted for clarity>...
>
> data-drive
>
> (file-system
> (device (%tmp-directory))
> (mount-point "/tmp")
> (type "none")
> (flags '(bind-mount))
> (dependencies (list data-drive))
> )
>
> %base-file-systems))