guix/doc/manual/nix-collect-garbage.xml

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<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>nix-collect-garbage</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-collect-garbage</refname>
<refpurpose>delete unreachable store paths</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-collect-garbage</command>
<arg><option>--delete-old</option></arg>
<arg><option>-d</option></arg>
<arg><option>--delete-older-than</option> <replaceable>period</replaceable></arg>
<group choice='opt'>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--print-roots</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--print-live</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--print-dead</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--delete</option></arg>
</group>
<arg><option>--dry-run</option></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection><title>Description</title>
<para>The command <command>nix-collect-garbage</command> is mostly an
alias of <link linkend="rsec-nix-store-gc"><command>nix-store
--gc</command></link>, that is, it deletes all unreachable paths in
the Nix store to clean up your system. However, it provides two
additional options: <option>-d</option> (<option>--delete-old</option>),
which deletes all old generations of all profiles in
<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles</filename> by invoking
<literal>nix-env --delete-generations old</literal> on all profiles
(of course, this makes rollbacks to previous configurations
impossible); and
<option>--delete-older-than</option> <replaceable>period</replaceable>,
where period is a value such as <literal>30d</literal>, which deletes
all non-current generations that are older than the specified number of
days in all profiles in <filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles</filename>.
</para>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Example</title>
<para>To delete from the Nix store everything that is not used by the
current generations of each profile, do
<screen>
$ nix-collect-garbage -d</screen>
</para>
</refsection>
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