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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org>
Cc: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>,
	 Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: Garbage Collector
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 22:18:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r11p41cm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFHYt55CTGXytWtndvg+kEum0rn3CO7M3iwJpOLntJinG25zDQ@mail.gmail.com> (Felix Lechner via's message of "Mon, 25 Jul 2022 08:20:54 -0700")

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’.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-09 20:19 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2022-08-10 16:06     ` Garbage Collector - for your Information Gottfried

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