Subject: Re: bug#78363: Home is read-only in guix shell container

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 17:06:51 +0200

Hi,

keinflue <[email-masked]> writes:

> I am not sure whether this is intended behavior, but it seems weird to
> me. Inside e.g.
>
> guix shell -Cu test coreutils
>
> /home/test is mounted read-only and I do not see any way to make it
> writable without sharing a host directory.

As noted in the ‘guix pull’ news, you can use ‘--writable-root’.
Otherwise, everything but the current directory and /tmp is read-only.

Ludo’.