From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: dian_cecht@zoho.com
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How important is /gnu/store/.links?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:19:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lz19pud.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170309074408.358873ef@khaalida> (dian cecht's message of "Thu, 9 Mar 2017 07:44:08 -0800")
<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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2017-03-09 15:44 How important is /gnu/store/.links? dian_cecht
2017-03-10 14:19 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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