NAME¶

guix - manual page for guix gc (GNU Guix) 1.3.0.27848-a3264

SYNOPSIS¶

guix gc [OPTION]... PATHS...

DESCRIPTION¶

Invoke the garbage collector.

-C, --collect-garbage[=MIN]

collect at least MIN bytes of garbage

-F, --free-space=FREE

attempt to reach FREE available space in the store

-d, --delete-generations[=PATTERN]

delete profile generations matching PATTERN

-D, --delete

attempt to delete PATHS

--list-roots

list the user's garbage collector roots

--list-busy

list store items used by running processes

--optimize

optimize the store by deduplicating identical files

--list-dead

list dead paths

--list-live

list live paths

--references

list the references of PATHS

-R, --requisites

list the requisites of PATHS

--referrers

list the referrers of PATHS

--derivers

list the derivers of PATHS

--verify[=OPTS]

verify the integrity of the store; OPTS is a comma-separated combination of 'repair' and 'contents'

--list-failures

list cached build failures

--clear-failures

remove PATHS from the set of cached failures

--vacuum-database

repack the sqlite database tracking the store using less space

-h, --help

display this help and exit

-V, --version

display version information and exit

REPORTING BUGS¶

Report bugs to: bug-guix@gnu.org.
GNU Guix home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/>
General help using Guix and GNU software: <https://guix.gnu.org/en/help/>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2022 the Guix authors License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO¶

The full documentation for guix is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and guix programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info guix

should give you access to the complete manual.