On Wed, Aug 27, 2025, at 5:56 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>if anyone can >> tell me what the equivalent of "guix gc --delete-generations" is for >> inferiors, and/or how to tell whether particular inferiors are in use >> and by what, I'd appreciate it. > > Do you mean things in ~/.cache/guix/inferiors?
Yes. In my case, /root/.cache/guix/inferiors, which, since /root is normally mode 700, couldn't be read by the unprivileged daemon. > This is populated by ‘guix time-machine’, which also cleans it up once > in a while when you run it. Aha, that makes sense. I think it was the unattended-upgrade-service that was using "guix time-machine" as root. zw
