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Zero to Nix is your guide to learning Nix and flakes. Created by Determinate Systems.
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How to designate nix store to an external drive? #364

Open Yannmm opened 2 months ago

Yannmm commented 2 months ago

I'm running out of space on my 256g ssd m1 macbook air. I wonder if there is a way to use an external ssd for my nix store.

I googled this post https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-move-nix-store-to-external-drive-on-macos/19592.

But it will be nice if the determinate installer could provide an easy way to do this.

Any help is appreciated.

zalom commented 3 weeks ago

I found this while researching about nix store optimization. -> https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Storage_optimization#Moving_the_store