Storage optimization: Revision history

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