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Disk space is why one of my laptops doesn't run NixOS; 16GB soldered storage fit one generation passably, but it was clear that it wasn't gonna work (of course,
by yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
Disk space is why one of my laptops doesn't run NixOS; 16GB soldered storage fit one generation passably, but it was clear that it wasn't gonna work (of course, that's with X and a browser; totally different use case). I vaguely recall that locales were shockingly large and I couldn't figure out how to trim them down. So that box runs Alpine now, which easily fits with no effort.
- shim__ 2y agoHave you tried putting /nix on an filesystem with compression? I've experienced >50% in storage savings with Bcachefs + zstd and dedupe
- GianFabien 2y agoI too use Alpine. I like how you start small and add what you need. The option of having a read-only root FS is convenient on flaky SBCs.
- SuperSandro2000 2y agoThe locale default seeing has been fixed by me over a year ago but 16GB is pretty small to fit two systems which you need to switch.