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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-27T16:50:55.000Z",
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    "Nix / NixOS",
    "tanja",
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  "textContent": "submitted by tanja to nix\n1 points | 0 comments\n\nFrom my own post: cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/47418159\n\n* * *\n\nI’ve just set up `bees` on my laptop.\n\n  * It’s been running for 40 minutes now\n  * I went from 28G to 58G free space on my 2 TB SSD\n  * Without deleting anything\n\n\n\nI’m genuinely amazed.\nIdk why, but I thought this was more of a gimmick for some reason, but nah it works well.\n\nCan highly recommend :3\n\n* * *\n\nSee github.com/Zygo/bees for the project if you wanna learn more.\n\nHere’s all I did on my system (NixOS), see !nix@programming.dev\n\n  1. I put this in my NixOS config:\n\n\n\n\n    services.beesd.filesystems.root = {\n      spec = \"UUID=dfabb360-7fde-4b06-a884-03c8d217d877\";\n      hashTableSizeMB = 8192;\n    };\n\n\n  2. I ran this command\n\n\n\n\n    cd /etc/nixos && sudo nixos-rebuild switch |& nom\n    # tho just running sudo nixos-rebuild switch in the correct dir would be sufficient\n\n\nAnd it just started giving me more space on my disk :3\n\n* * *\n\nPS: it’s been 49 minutes now, and I’m at 72G free 🎉\n(the CPU has been maxed out the entire time, keep that in mind)",
  "title": "three-ish line change for more storage on NixOS: Using Bees on btrfs has saved me a lot of storage space, can recommend"
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