Using Bees on btrfs has saved me a lot of storage space, can recommend (beesd on NixOS) - Lemmy.World

I’ve just set up bees on my laptop. - It’s been running for 40 minutes now - I went from 28G to 58G free space on my 2 TB SSD - Without deleting anything I’m genuinely amazed. Idk why, but I thought this was more of a gimmick for some reason, but nah it works well. Can highly recommend :3 — See https://github.com/Zygo/bees [https://github.com/Zygo/bees] for the project if you wanna learn more. Here’s all I did on my system (NixOS), see [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://programming.dev/c/nix] 1. I put this in my NixOS config: nix services.beesd.filesystems.root = { spec = "UUID=dfabb360-7fde-4b06-a884-03c8d217d877"; hashTableSizeMB = 8192; }; 2. I ran this command cd /etc/nixos && sudo nixos-rebuild switch |& nom # tho just running sudo nixos-rebuild switch in the correct dir would be sufficient And it just started giving me more space on my disk :3 — PS: it’s been 49 minutes now, and I’m at 72G free 🎉 (the CPU has been maxed out the entire time, keep that in mind)