From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Elias Kueny <elias.kueny@posteo.net>
Cc: 62379@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62379: /gnu/store/.links filling the hard drive on foreign distro
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2023 23:12:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cz4eaxit.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g3cedph6it4.fsf@cfeld-pcx39651.desy.de> (Elias Kueny's message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:48:04 +0000")
Hi,
Elias Kueny <elias.kueny@posteo.net> skribis:
> The problem is the size of /gnu/store/.links: after garbage collection
> with "guix gc --delete-generations=1w", /gnu/store is 17.4 GB in
> total, and /gnu/store/.links is 14.5 GB (344120 items, ranging from 93
> MB to 4.1 kB each).
This is expected: /gnu/store/.links contains hard links to other files
in /gnu/store. IOW /gnu/store/.links is a subset of the rest of
/gnu/store, sharing the same inodes.
> The garbage collector prints that "currently hard linking saves
> 3717.77 MiB". With a 40GB hard drive, the gnu store regularly fills
> up all the available space if I'm not careful. I found from an old
> issue (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/24937#1) that 10 millions links
> should need around 700 MB, so this sounds like a bug.
Note that the issue you mention was addressed to a large extent in 2021:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/24937#20
HTH!
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-22 10:48 bug#62379: /gnu/store/.links filling the hard drive on foreign distro Elias Kueny
2023-04-08 21:12 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-05-07 15:05 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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