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==== Deduplication ====
==== Deduplication ====


You may wind up with duplicate files in your Nix store. Data deduplication is a resource intense process, so is not done automatically. Often you can save about 25-35% of your store space by optimizing the store though. This will perform a deduplication process on your Nix store (hard link duplicates together):
You may wind up with duplicate files in your Nix store. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_deduplication Data deduplication] is a resource intense process while running, so is not done automatically by default. Often you can save about 25-35% of your store space by optimizing the store though. This will perform a deduplication process on your Nix store (hard link duplicates together):


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