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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-04-02 21:44:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-04-02 21:44:35 +0200 |
| commit | c22eb9927f1ca6e8a724f9e634ce14700f888c6b (patch) | |
| tree | 199f7e3ee54ac754514ebd8f46da70cabcdb2c95 /doc | |
| parent | 1768213c0aed6939217e55bd719f9f8a8858713c (diff) | |
doc: Make it clear that store items must not be deleted by hand.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix gc): Add that this is the only way to
delete files.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 7ab424292e..677fc57c1a 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -1314,7 +1314,9 @@ guix package}). @cindex garbage collector Packages that are installed but not used may be @dfn{garbage-collected}. The @command{guix gc} command allows users to explicitly run the garbage -collector to reclaim space from the @file{/gnu/store} directory. +collector to reclaim space from the @file{/gnu/store} directory. It is +the @emph{only} way to remove files from @file{/gnu/store}---removing +files or directories manually may break it beyond repair! The garbage collector has a set of known @dfn{roots}: any file under @file{/gnu/store} reachable from a root is considered @dfn{live} and |