nix3-store-gc(1)

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version 2.35.3 · 11 versions
, in fedora 44

nix3-store-gc(1) — bestie, it's time to take out the trash 💅🗑️

okay so first things first, this page lives in the General Commands Manual (the nix3-store-gc(1) one, yes that's the name, yes it's a mouthful, we move) 💖

⚠️ warning bestie, for real: This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change. Not a drill. It might glow up and change shape on you. 🙈

✨ Name ✨

nix store gc — perform garbage collection on a Nix store 🧹✨

🌸 Synopsis 🌸

nix store gc [option…]

💖 Examples 💖

  • Delete unreachable paths in the Nix store — just pure, unbothered cleansing energy:
# nix store gc
  • Delete up to 1 gigabyte of garbage — a lil snack-sized cleanup, she's on a budget 🍓:
# nix store gc --max 1G

🦋 Description 🦋

This command deletes unreachable paths in the Nix store. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it's giving "spring cleaning but make it functional" 🧚✨

👑 Options 👑

  • --dry-run — show what this command would do, without actually doing it. window shopping, no cap 👀
  • --max n — stop after freeing n bytes of disk space. Cannot be combined with --dry-run. pick a lane bestie, you can't manifest and commit at the same time 😭
  • --debug — set the logging verbosity level to debug. she wants details.
  • --log-format format — set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs. four aesthetics, pick your fave 💅
  • --print-build-logs, -L — print full build logs on standard error. receipts on full blast 🔥
  • --quiet — decrease the logging verbosity level. shhh, she's resting 😌
  • --verbose, -v — increase the logging verbosity level. tell me EVERYTHING.

🎀 Miscellaneous global options 🎀

  • --help — show usage information. always read the instructions, iconic behaviour 💜
  • --offline — disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date. airplane mode but for your store ✈️
  • --option name value — set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf). you're the main character, you make the rules 👑
  • --refresh — consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date. "actually, we're redoing this" energy 🌸
  • --version — show version information. who are you? what era are you in? ⭐
📝 Note: see man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags. iykyk, go read that one too 🫶

and that's the whole page, you ate it, you understand it, no cap 🍓💖

sign-off time: this was nix3-store-gc(1) from the General Commands Manual (the same nix3-store-gc(1) name, slaying in both header and footer). stay garbage-collected, bestie. ✨🧹🌈

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