On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 18:12:10 -0400 Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote:
> Looking in the manual for mentions of bind-mount I found the > documentation of %immutable-store, which is a bind-mounted filesystem > that exists by default in Guix System. It's implemented in > 'gnu/systems/file-systems.scm' and hopefully provides a helpful example: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/system/file-systems.scm?h=v1.0.1#n346 Thanks! I was able to get it working from that example! For anyone else in the future who might want the info, here's what I did: first I had to define these two things before the operating system section: >(define data-drive > (file-system > (device (uuid "UUID goes here")) > (mount-point "/path-to-spinning-disk-goes-here") > (type "ext4"))) > >(define (%tmp-directory) "/path-to-spinning-disk-goes-here/tmp") Then, in the file-systems list I added the following: >(file-systems (cons* > > ...<other drives omitted for clarity>... > > data-drive > > (file-system > (device (%tmp-directory)) > (mount-point "/tmp") > (type "none") > (flags '(bind-mount)) > (dependencies (list data-drive)) > ) > > %base-file-systems))
