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Sometimes your store fills up the disk, but a simple < | Sometimes your store fills up the disk, but a simple | ||
<syntaxhighlight lang=text>nix-store --gc</syntaxhighlight> | |||
does not seem to clean all that much. | |||
This usually means that you have some old collection roots that keep old versions of nixpkgs around. | This usually means that you have some old collection roots that keep old versions of nixpkgs around. | ||
Sometimes <code>result</code> files created by an ad-hoc <code>nix-build</code> bind a lot of resources, these can be found by running: | Sometimes <code>result</code> files created by an ad-hoc <code>nix-build</code> bind a lot of resources, these can be found by running: | ||
Additional Resources about cleaning up the nix-store | <syntaxhighlight lang=shell> | ||
nix-store --gc --print-roots | egrep -v "^(/nix/var|/run/\w+-system|\{memory|/proc)" | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | |||
Additional Resources about cleaning up the ''nix-store'': | |||
* https://matthewrhone.dev/nixos-package-guide#cleanup-old-packages-user-wide | * https://matthewrhone.dev/nixos-package-guide#cleanup-old-packages-user-wide | ||
* | * [[Storage optimization]] | ||
* https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/8m1n3d/taking_out_the_trash/ | * https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/8m1n3d/taking_out_the_trash/ | ||
There | There are multiple tools that can help with discovering ''gcroots'' and calculate the disk size: | ||
* https://github.com/symphorien/nix-du | * https://github.com/symphorien/nix-du | ||
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* https://github.com/cdepillabout/nix-query-tree-viewer | * https://github.com/cdepillabout/nix-query-tree-viewer | ||
* https://github.com/craigmbooth/nix-visualize | * https://github.com/craigmbooth/nix-visualize | ||
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