There’s the readDir builtin, but I expect nix might complain if you use that

IDK about the issue itself but I must say the discourse post does a mighty good job at explaining the reasons the guy was NOT suspended for and a really terrible one at explaining what they actually did suspend him for, except pissing off “the moderation team, in consultation with members of the Foundation board”.

In your shoes I’d do just that (booting from a usb stick and creating/mounting the appropriate partitions in the new drives)… but you might find resilvering or resizing partitions easier if you are more familiar with those operations that I am.

It must be said that actually copying the files rather than working with block devices will let you switch to a different filesystem (or take advantage of updates/optimizations recently introduced by your filesystem) or use different mount options (eg. add compression) and should in theory lead to better performance (eg. less fragmentation). In a homelab the performance difference will probably be unnoticeable anyways so… just go with the method you are most comfortable with :)

You create a new raid array with the two new disks and move the data there? I fear you’ll have to be more specific about what doesn’t add up for you…

Thanks!

I guess it should be nix why-depends .nix-profile/bin nixpkgs#freeimage but unfortunately that just spits out the “freeimage is insecure” error (for whatever reason? it’s not like I’m installing the insecure package)

❱ nix why-depends .nix-profile/bin nixpkgs#freeimage
error: Package ‘freeimage-unstable-2021-11-01’ in /nix/store/dzv2jjx429kczqwqklfb8v4mn9phv778-source/pkgs/development/libraries/freeimage/default.nix:72 is marked as insecure, refusing to evaluate.
[...]

Neither NIXPKGS_ALLOW_INSECURE=1 nix why-depends ... or nix why-depends --option permittedInsecurePackages freeimage-unstable-2021-11-01 ... (which may very well be wrong) seem to bypass the overzealous security check… I ended up updating my working copy of the nixpkgs git repo and running grep -rl freeimage * there.