nixos-rebuild

linux

Reconfigure a NixOS machine.

Options (1)

-p, --profile-nameboolean

Build and switch to the new configuration, making it the boot default and naming the boot entry

Example: sudo nixos-rebuild switch {{[-p|--profile-name]}} {{name}}

Build and switch to the new configuration, making it the boot default

sudo nixos-rebuild switch

Build and switch to the new configuration, making it the boot default and naming the boot entry

sudo nixos-rebuild switch [-p|--profile-name] name

Build and switch to the new configuration, making it the boot default and installing updates

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

Rollback changes to the configuration, switching to the previous generation

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --rollback

Build the new configuration and make it the boot default without switching to it

sudo nixos-rebuild boot

Build and activate the new configuration, but don't make a boot entry (for testing purposes)

sudo nixos-rebuild test

Build the configuration and open it in a virtual machine

sudo nixos-rebuild build-vm

List available generations similar to the boot loader menu

nixos-rebuild list-generations