carl hansen writes: > Rather than trying the following, I thought, "Why not ask first?" > > Due to the sizes of various hard disks in my machine, I want to move /gnu > to /directoryondifferentdisk/gnu > and then do > mount --bind /directoryondifferentdisk/gnu /gnu > > (I have already formed a superstition that > ln -s /directoryondifferentdisk/gnu /gnu > won't work) > > I see a vast collection of hard links in /gnu/store/.links... > > I forsee problems when copying /gnu, not reproducing hard links > but reproducing the data. > > Are my fears founded? How to proceed? > Or better to start over with new installation of gnux and /gnu?
On my last machine I started out with a too-small root partition, but I was installing a lot of guix packages, so I bind-mounted /home/guix-gnu/ to /gnu/ and everything worked great.
