nix-collect-garbage

removes unreferenced store paths from the Nix store

TLDR

Collect garbage

$ nix-collect-garbage

Delete old generations

$ nix-collect-garbage -d

Delete generations older than days

$ nix-collect-garbage --delete-older-than [30d]

Dry run

$ nix-collect-garbage --dry-run

SYNOPSIS

nix-collect-garbage [options]

DESCRIPTION

nix-collect-garbage removes unreferenced store paths from the Nix store. Frees disk space by deleting packages not linked from any profile or garbage collection root.

PARAMETERS

-d, --delete-old

Delete old profile generations.

--delete-older-than period

Delete generations older than period.

--dry-run

Show what would be deleted.

--max-freed bytes

Stop after freeing bytes.