Hi, Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org> skribis:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 2:52 AM Gottfried <gottfr...@posteo.de> wrote: >> >> The manual says that it is dangerous to use: "guix gc" >> because it can delete too much. > > I agree that 'guix gc' deletes too much, but it's probably not > dangerous. You will just see some downloads and builds repeated when > reconfiguring later. Indeed, it’s not dangerous, and I don’t think the manual suggests that. To avoid collecting things just to redownload/rebuild them later, I usually ask ‘guix gc’ to free up some amount of space, as in: guix gc -F20G That ensures 20G (more or less) are available on my disk and doesn’t try to collect more than that. Thanks, Ludo’.
