nix3-store-gc - Man Page

perform garbage collection on a Nix store

Warning
This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change.

Synopsis

nix store gc [option…]

Examples

Delete unreachable paths in the Nix store:

# nix store gc

Delete up to 1 gigabyte of garbage:

# nix store gc --max 1G

Description

This command deletes unreachable paths in the Nix store.

Options

--dry-run
Show what this command would do without doing it.
--max n
Stop after freeing n bytes of disk space.

Logging-related options

--debug
Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’.
--log-format format
Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.
--print-build-logs / -L
Print full build logs on standard error.
--quiet
Decrease the logging verbosity level.
--verbose / -v
Increase the logging verbosity level.

Miscellaneous global options

--help
Show usage information.
--offline
Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.
--option name value
Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).
--refresh
Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.
--version
Show version information.
Note
See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.