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

Name

nix store gc - perform garbage collection on a Nix store

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.

--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Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.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.