yesman@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 days agoIn a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square184linkfedilinkarrow-up1959arrow-down119
arrow-up1940arrow-down1imageIn a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better.lemmy.worldyesman@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square184linkfedilink
minus-squareatopi@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·22 hours agoDo you not remove older versions? How much memory are you using?
minus-squareRustyNova@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 hours 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-up1·15 hours agoIts possible to set it to do it when a set amount of storage is occupied?
minus-squareRustyNova@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 hours 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