yesman@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 3 days agoIn a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better.lemmy.imagisphe.reimagemessage-square195linkfedilinkarrow-up11Karrow-down118
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minus-squareatopi@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoDo you not remove older versions? How much memory are you using?
minus-squareRustyNova@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoI do remove older versions, but I set the auto GC to do it at 5% storage remaining, so it doesn’t matter that the update is lighter, I actually increased the storage usage. I also use bees to dedupe the nix store so I cannot say the raw size
minus-squareatopi@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoIts possible to set it to do it when a set amount of storage is occupied?
minus-squareRustyNova@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoIt’s possible if you know the size of the disk. Here’s the docs https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Storage_optimization#Garbage_collection
Do you not remove older versions? How much memory are you using?
I do remove older versions, but I set the auto GC to do it at 5% storage remaining, so it doesn’t matter that the update is lighter, I actually increased the storage usage.
I also use bees to dedupe the nix store so I cannot say the raw size
Its possible to set it to do it when a set amount of storage is occupied?
It’s possible if you know the size of the disk. Here’s the docs https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Storage_optimization#Garbage_collection