From: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Garbage Collector - for your Information
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 16:06:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c49acde-7742-aab2-7ece-e2292e04c622@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r11p41cm.fsf@gnu.org>
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Hi Guixers,
thanks for Your advice Ludo and all other Guixers,
for Your information (first time of using gc):
After using Guix System for 6 month I did a:
"guix gc"
It collected about 50 GB and deleted that.
(I wanted to do that to get to know how it collects without deleting
generations)
Than I deleted all generations
I did a "guix gc" again
and it deleted approx 40 GB again.
After that I did a
guix pull,
guix package -u,
sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
and it downloaded approx 2,2 GB of packages.
The result of that is, that in future I will do a
"guix gc -F20G"
in order not to delete too much and later to redownload and rebuild them.
Gottfried
Am 09.08.22 um 22:18 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> Hi,
>
> Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 2:52 AM Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> The manual says that it is dangerous to use: "guix gc"
>>> because it can delete too much.
>>
>> I agree that 'guix gc' deletes too much, but it's probably not
>> dangerous. You will just see some downloads and builds repeated when
>> reconfiguring later.
>
> Indeed, it’s not dangerous, and I don’t think the manual suggests that.
>
> To avoid collecting things just to redownload/rebuild them later, I
> usually ask ‘guix gc’ to free up some amount of space, as in:
>
> guix gc -F20G
>
> That ensures 20G (more or less) are available on my disk and doesn’t try
> to collect more than that.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-25 9:51 Garbage Collector Gottfried
2022-07-25 14:57 ` (
2022-07-25 15:20 ` Felix Lechner via
2022-07-28 17:27 ` Gottfried
2022-07-28 17:36 ` Gottfried
2022-07-30 9:40 ` Gottfried
2022-08-09 20:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-08-10 16:06 ` Gottfried [this message]
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