when setting up my new laptop i am intending to break /home and /nix into their own partitions. The NVME is 512GB so i am thinking

/ = 20GB

/nix = 50GB

swap = 16GB (2x RAM)

/home = all remaining

Thoughts?

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[–] 1 point 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I just checked my main PC which I use for playing games and development (Android and Rust), and it uses 45GB for /nix just after nh clean all which deletes all profiles but the current one. 50GB might be a bit tight during a rebuild where you inevitably have two copies of the software, but outside of that, it seems good enough.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    You know, if i can setup btrfs from the graphical install that might be the better way to go. I could then make different sub-volumes for @home @nix , etc. If I really want the quotas that can be enforced on the sub volumes.

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