How to put your /nix directory on a separate device

https://cs-syd.eu/posts/2019-09-14-nix-on-seperate-device

If people want to mount a directory and not a whole partition (share that partition with other use cases), you can also use a bind mound. This email is insightful on how to do that.

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Bind mounts are definitely the way to go. I use bind mounted /nix on all my servers (RHEL). Trivial to set up too.

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