<dian_ce...@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’.
