From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: Guix-Help <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs?
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:58:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efbu4iwa.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muqiwwn1.fsf@netris.org>
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> : > 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?
Note that for a while Guix now suggest (1) and (4) when the store is low on
space.
I like interactive help, I think it reaches a wider audience than just the
manual.
Having both is also great, at the expense of risking inconsistencies if one is
updated but not the other.
--
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-09 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-11 19:11 Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs? Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-12 10:55 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-13 9:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-13 9:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-14 9:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-14 10:57 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-14 17:46 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-14 18:02 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-14 21:34 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-14 22:10 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-11-09 6:53 ` swedebugia
2018-11-09 7:13 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-11-09 10:58 ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2018-11-09 16:47 ` swedebugia
2018-11-13 20:31 ` Leo Famulari
2018-11-13 21:14 ` swedebugia
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