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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Subject: bug#23979: [ER] guix gc should tell how much space it recovered
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:12:06 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 04:33:46PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> This code calls the ‘collect-garbage’ procedure, defined in (guix
> store).  You’ll see that this procedure returns two values, which are
> currently ignored: the name of the items that were removed from the
> store, and the number of bytes freed.

Brutto or netto? Otherwise said, does it take into account the hardlinks
used for deduplication, or does it pretend that every deleted file saves
as much memory as its size indicates?

Andreas