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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 20:36:52 -0500
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On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 04:36:51PM -0600, Eric Bavier wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 00:10:21 +0300
> Dmitry Nikolaev <cameltheman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > I have successfully build disk-image using command:
> > 
> > $ guix system disk-image --image-size=8G guix/gnu/system/install.scm
> > 
> > Now I have 8 Gb file in my /gnu/store that I can't delete using 'sudo rm'.
> > 
> > How do I remove it?
> 
> You can use 'guix gc --delete /gnu/store/...'

To add to this, please don't try to remove or alter files in /gnu/store
"by hand". Only the guix-daemon may change the store, or Guix may stop
working properly. This is mentioned in the manual, section "The Store":

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/The-Store.html#The-Store