Issue when installing NixOS with impermanence about impermanence HOT 8 CLOSED

I had not realized I had to manually create the folders in /persist first. After I did that, it worked. Closing this issue...

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Hi! Thank you for reporting this!

You should not have to create the directory structure in your persistence root. It should create the directory for you with the message

Warning: Source directory dirname does not exist; it will be created for you. Make sure the permissions are correct!

This is a bug in the create-directories.bash script. realpath cannot be passed a path to a file in a nonexistent directory.

from impermanence.

I see. The message you mention appears, indeed, but the script still fails. Perhaps it's something to do with the order of operations? realpath should probably be called after the directory is created, I'm guessing.

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Can you try #37? It should solve your issue.

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It did solve that previous issue; however, the files inside the directories are not copied to the persistence root (for instance, configuration.nix in /etc/nixos/).

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Great! I'll close this now, then.

No, they wouldn't be - we never copy or move files into persistent storage. If you want the files to exist in persistent storage before the bind mounts and links are set up, you need to create them there to begin with.

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Oh, so this bug was just about the directory structure then. I see. Thanks for the quick fix!

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Yes, exactly. No problem!

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