impermanence
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
0warn against
Nov 30, 2025first mention
Sep 10, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use Impermanence to manage the bind mounts to the persist drive”
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“Set it up with Impermanence”
“Impermanence: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence.”
“I use impermanence to wipe my disk on every boot except for the a handful of folders that I tell it to preserve across boots.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Also written as Impermanence. Data: impermanence.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“I use Impermanence to manage the bind mounts to the persist drive”
“does this, forcefully”
“Set it up with Impermanence”
“Impermanence: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence.”
“I use impermanence to wipe my disk on every boot except for the a handful of folders that I tell it to preserve across boots.”
“I'd look into this NixOS project”