* How important is /gnu/store/.links?
@ 2017-03-09 15:44 dian_cecht
2017-03-10 14:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: dian_cecht @ 2017-03-09 15:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-guix
What is the purpose of /gnu/store/.links and is it important? I checked
the docs on the website and couldn't find any reference to this
directory anywhere, so I'm asking here.
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* Re: How important is /gnu/store/.links?
2017-03-09 15:44 How important is /gnu/store/.links? dian_cecht
@ 2017-03-10 14:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2017-03-10 14:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
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<dian_cecht@zoho.com> skribis:
> What is the purpose of /gnu/store/.links and is it important? I checked
> the docs on the website and couldn't find any reference to this
> directory anywhere, so I'm asking here.
This directory serves as a database for deduplication, which is the
process of using hard links to make sure each individual file in
/gnu/store is stored only once in the file system.
If you “rm -rf” this directory, things will keep working, but that will
hamper deduplication going forward. You can force a store-wide
deduplication pass, though, by running “guix gc --optimize”.
HTH!
Ludo’.
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