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Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:18:51 -0400 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: Felix Lechner via Cc: Felix Lechner , Gottfried Subject: Re: Garbage Collector References: X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: Duodi 22 Thermidor an 230 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9vol?= =?utf-8?Q?ution=2C?= jour du =?utf-8?Q?C=C3=A2prier?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 22:18:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Felix Lechner via's message of "Mon, 25 Jul 2022 08:20:54 -0700") Message-ID: <87r11p41cm.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: help-guix@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-To: larch@yhetil.org X-Migadu-Country: US ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; 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aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gnu.org header.s=fencepost-gnu-org header.b=khZLrcpH; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -6.89 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gnu.org header.s=fencepost-gnu-org header.b=khZLrcpH; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: A5E9422FC4 X-Spam-Score: -6.89 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: iQqGtD7YzX/k Hi, Felix Lechner via skribis: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 2:52 AM Gottfried 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=E2=80=99s not dangerous, and I don=E2=80=99t think the manual su= ggests that. To avoid collecting things just to redownload/rebuild them later, I usually ask =E2=80=98guix gc=E2=80=99 to free up some amount of space, as i= n: guix gc -F20G That ensures 20G (more or less) are available on my disk and doesn=E2=80=99= t try to collect more than that. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.