Storage optimization: Revision history

5 October 2024

• curprev 17:0817:08, 5 October 2024 Denperidge talk contribs 13,277 bytes −52 Moving the store: fixed rsync --hard-links argument, merged rsync commands. Moved mount instructions from mounting on /mnt to mounting on /mnt/nix, added mount options Tag: Visual edit

29 July 2024

• curprev 17:4317:43, 29 July 2024 Adda0 talk contribs m 13,329 bytes −2 Fix trailing typo. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

27 July 2024

• curprev 14:1714:17, 27 July 2024 Mic92 talk contribs 13,331 bytes +25 No edit summary

1 January 2024

• curprev 23:2723:27, 1 January 2024 imported>LucasWagler m 13,306 bytes +3 Wording in Automatic Optimisation
• curprev 23:2123:21, 1 January 2024 imported>LucasWagler 13,303 bytes +13 Rework automatic optimisation to differentiate the two methods.

26 December 2023

• curprev 14:4214:42, 26 December 2023 imported>Xav-ie m 13,290 bytes +365 Add reasoning for why auto-optimise-store is not on automatically and what you can do instead

9 October 2023

• curprev 20:5720:57, 9 October 2023 imported>Riley-martine m 12,925 bytes −10 →Automatic

17 March 2023

• curprev 18:1418:14, 17 March 2023 imported>Sbh69840 m 12,935 bytes +239 nix.gc.dates is not supported in nix-darwin and hence included an example to use nix.gc.interval

11 July 2022

• curprev 11:3611:36, 11 July 2022 imported>Odyssey346 m 12,696 bytes +11 Update auto optimise

15 September 2021

• curprev 22:3522:35, 15 September 2021 imported>Schuelermine 12,685 bytes −3 -d is dangerous as per section below

5 September 2021

• curprev 22:5222:52, 5 September 2021 imported>Samuela 12,688 bytes +982 No edit summary

2 June 2021

• curprev 20:4720:47, 2 June 2021 imported>Appetrosyan 11,706 bytes +169 Consistency improvements, style. Used more templates. All commands now have the appropriate privilege indicator.
• curprev 19:4819:48, 2 June 2021 imported>Appetrosyan m 11,537 bytes +118 Grammar + explained trailing slashes

24 May 2021

• curprev 11:3711:37, 24 May 2021 imported>Pinage404 m 11,419 bytes +16 Re add moving store with a second step to remove the old store
• curprev 11:3311:33, 24 May 2021 imported>Pinage404 11,403 bytes +984 →Moving the store

22 May 2021

• curprev 01:0301:03, 22 May 2021 imported>Ianthehenry 10,419 bytes +473 larger tweaks to the section on pinning
• curprev 00:5300:53, 22 May 2021 imported>Ianthehenry m 9,946 bytes +42 try to make some of the language a little more clear
• curprev 00:3800:38, 22 May 2021 imported>Ianthehenry 9,904 bytes +175 clarify the keep-outputs=true assumptions on this page
• curprev 00:3400:34, 22 May 2021 imported>Ianthehenry m 9,729 bytes +39 minor grammatical tweaks

29 November 2020

• curprev 23:2223:22, 29 November 2020 imported>Petersjt014 9,690 bytes +422 note about noatime
• curprev 04:5704:57, 29 November 2020 imported>Petersjt014 9,268 bytes +485 added a bash alias demonstrating the utility of /nix/var/nix/gcroots

14 November 2020

• curprev 04:2904:29, 14 November 2020 imported>Artturin 8,783 bytes +39 move optimizing the store up so that it is more visible and add automatically section

27 March 2020

• curprev 07:3707:37, 27 March 2020 imported>Kiwi m 8,744 bytes −1 No edit summary

29 December 2019

• curprev 22:0922:09, 29 December 2019 imported>Haslersn m 8,745 bytes −4 fetchFromTarball -> fetchTarball

25 October 2019

• curprev 05:4305:43, 25 October 2019 imported>OctavioElMagnifico m 8,749 bytes +79 More detail in rsync command and more numbers in action list for nixos migration of store.
• curprev 05:4005:40, 25 October 2019 imported>OctavioElMagnifico 8,670 bytes +150 Added detail over the method for changing the store location in nixos. After binding into nix/ the new partition you need to restart the daemon in order to be able to rebuild. Also, for nixos to boot you need to add "neeededForBoot" in the new /nix filesy

22 April 2019

• curprev 06:4106:41, 22 April 2019 imported>Mth m 8,520 bytes +91 Use syntaxhighlight lang="console"

15 April 2019

• curprev 19:1019:10, 15 April 2019 imported>Mth 8,429 bytes +515 automatically run garbage collection whenever there is not enough space left
• curprev 17:1117:11, 15 April 2019 imported>Mth m 7,914 bytes +2 No edit summary
• curprev 16:5016:50, 15 April 2019 imported>Mth m 7,912 bytes −34 bash syntax highlighting makes root prompts look like comments
• curprev 16:1116:11, 15 April 2019 imported>Mth m 7,946 bytes 0 Mth moved page Garbage Collection to Storage optimization
• curprev 16:0416:04, 15 April 2019 imported>Mth 7,946 bytes −25 No edit summary
• curprev 15:5415:54, 15 April 2019 imported>Mth 7,971 bytes −5 No edit summary
• curprev 15:5315:53, 15 April 2019 imported>Mth 7,976 bytes −123 No edit summary
• curprev 15:4915:49, 15 April 2019 imported>Mth 8,099 bytes +267 No edit summary
• curprev 13:4513:45, 15 April 2019 imported>Mth 7,832 bytes −60 not sure about these changes, review appreciated

10 August 2018

• curprev 15:4015:40, 10 August 2018 imported>Cransom 7,892 bytes +16 nix-shell silently ignores --add-root, nix-instantiate is the right tool.

30 December 2017

• curprev 14:1114:11, 30 December 2017 imported>Turion m 7,876 bytes +291 Improve formatting, wording and grammar

26 August 2017

• curprev 20:0420:04, 26 August 2017 imported>Fadenb m 7,585 bytes +156 Syntax highlighting

21 August 2017

• curprev 18:1418:14, 21 August 2017 imported>Makefu 7,429 bytes +7,429 initial batch of nixos-users