Impermanence: Difference between revisions

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You can just make a home partition on a drive and mount it as normal, so everything in <code>/home</code> or <code>/home/username</code> will be persisted. If you want your home to be impermanent as well, then mount it on tmpfs the same way as root.

For persisting files in your home, you could simply use [https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager Home Manager] like normal. However, then files are stored read-only in the Nix store. In order to persist files while still being writable, you can use the [https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence Home Manager Impermanence module]. It will fuse mount and link files ~~as necessary~~.

For persisting files in your home, you could simply use [https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager Home Manager] like normal. However, then files are stored read-only in the Nix store. In order to persist files while still being writable, you can use the [https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence Home Manager Impermanence module]. It will fuse mount folders and link files from persistent storage into your home directory.

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"Atom/.atom/atom-discord"

"Atom/.atom/packages"

"Firefox/.mozilla" # bind mounted from /nix/dotfiles to /home/$USERNAME/.mozilla

"Firefox/.mozilla" # bind mounted from /nix/dotfiles/Firefox/.mozilla to /home/$USERNAME/.mozilla

"Clementine/.config/Clementine"

];

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 You can just make a home partition on a drive and mount it as normal, so everything in <code>/home</code> or <code>/home/username</code> will be persisted. If you want your home to be impermanent as well, then mount it on tmpfs the same way as root.
-For persisting files in your home, you could simply use [https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager Home Manager] like normal. However, then files are stored read-only in the Nix store. In order to persist files while still being writable, you can use the [https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence Home Manager Impermanence module]. It will fuse mount and link files as necessary.
+For persisting files in your home, you could simply use [https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager Home Manager] like normal. However, then files are stored read-only in the Nix store. In order to persist files while still being writable, you can use the [https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence Home Manager Impermanence module]. It will fuse mount folders and link files from persistent storage into your home directory.
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          "Atom/.atom/atom-discord"
          "Atom/.atom/packages"
-         "Firefox/.mozilla"   # bind mounted from /nix/dotfiles to /home/$USERNAME/.mozilla
+         "Firefox/.mozilla"   # bind mounted from /nix/dotfiles/Firefox/.mozilla to /home/$USERNAME/.mozilla
          "Clementine/.config/Clementine"
        ];