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bug#34255: wishlist: Add guix-y way to create swapfile


From: swedebugia
Subject: bug#34255: wishlist: Add guix-y way to create swapfile
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:48:29 +0100

Hi

I specified a swapfile in my config without creating it on disk manually.

(swap-devices '("/swapfile"))

Then I predictably got this error:

guix system: error: exception caught while executing 'start' on service 'swap-/swapfile':
In procedure swapon: "/swapfile": No such file or directory

I think we should let guix do all the dirty work of generating the swapfile so we can do something like:

(swap-file      
        (file "/swapfile"))
        (size "1G"))

And then guix will invoke the relevant file tools to create and enable the swap file.

We could add a check to see if the file exist and if yes try to use it as is.

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Cheers
Swedebugia





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