Cleaning the nix store: Difference between revisions
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Sometimes your store fills up the disk, but a simple <syntaxHighlight>nix-store --gc</syntaxHighlight> does not seem to clean all that much. | Sometimes your store fills up the disk, but a simple <syntaxHighlight>nix-store --gc</syntaxHighlight> does not seem to clean all that much. | ||
This usually means that you have some | This usually means that you have some old collection roots that keep old versions of nixpkgs around. | ||
There is multiple tools that can help with discovering | 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: | ||
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nix-store --gc --print-roots | egrep -v "^(/nix/var|/run/\w+-system|\{memory|/proc)" | |||
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Additional Resources about cleaning up the nix-store are: | |||
* https://matthewrhone.dev/nixos-package-guide#cleanup-old-packages-user-wide | |||
* https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Storage_optimization | |||
* https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/8m1n3d/taking_out_the_trash/ | |||
There is multiple tools that can help with discovering gc roots and calculate the disk size: | |||
* https://github.com/symphorien/nix-du | * https://github.com/symphorien/nix-du | ||