From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gf5h9-0002q4-Ju for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:18:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gf5h4-0001kU-4B for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:18:07 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:34718) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gf5h4-0001kO-0t for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:18:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gf5h3-0006BN-S0 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:18:01 -0500 Subject: [bug#33374] [PATCH] doc: guix: Inform about deleting old system generations Resent-Message-ID: From: swedebugia References: <87muqiwwn1.fsf@netris.org> <351b7d95-8226-bbcb-eeaa-16ff2249783f@riseup.net> Message-ID: <83662888-071c-fc75-cae8-87927407d852@riseup.net> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 17:24:00 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <351b7d95-8226-bbcb-eeaa-16ff2249783f@riseup.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: 33374@debbugs.gnu.org, mail@ambrevar.xyz, mhw@netris.org On 2018-11-14 09:21, swedebugia wrote: > Note the FIXME. > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs? > Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 02:13:43 -0500 > From: Mark H Weaver > To: swedebugia > CC: Pierre Neidhardt , Guix-Help > >>> Pierre Neidhardt writes: > > snip > >>> When I want to free up some disk space, I do the following steps: >>> >>> (1) update my user profiles and delete old generations >>> (2) delete older generations in /var/guix/profiles (but always >>>      keeping the one referenced by /run/booted-system!) >>> (3) reconfigure the system to remove the old system profiles from >>>      grub.cfg >>> (4) guix gc >> This would be nice to have in the manual I think. > > Would you like to propose a patch? > >      Mark Ping -- Cheers Swedebugia