This is a great blog post on how to do this on nix, https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings . My Nix machine

This is a great blog post on how to do this on nix, https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings . My Nix machine is stateless apart from a few directories such as home that I want to remain across reboots. When I shutdown/restart the server anything not in a mount I’ve explicitly configured to be persisted, gets erased. The initial setup was a bit of work but the end result works flawlessly.