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Split nix-env and nix-store documentation per-subcommand

Documentation on "classic" commands with many sub-commands are
notoriously hard to discover due to lack of overview and anchor links.
Additionally the information on common options and environment variables
is not accessible offline in man pages, and therefore often overlooked
by readers.

With this change, each sub-command of nix-store and nix-env gets its
own page in the manual (listed in the table of contents), and each own
man page.

Also, man pages for each subcommand now (again) list common options
and environment variables. While this makes each page quite long and
some common parameters don't apply, this should still make it easier
to navigate as that additional information was not accessible on the
command line at all.

It is now possible to run 'nix-store --<subcommand> --help` to display
help pages for the given subcommand.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
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Alexander Bantyev 2023-03-23 19:27:41 +04:00 committed by Valentin Gagarin
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# Name
`nix-store --gc` - run garbage collection
# Synopsis
`nix-store` `--gc` [`--print-roots` | `--print-live` | `--print-dead`] [`--max-freed` *bytes*]
# Description
Without additional flags, the operation `--gc` performs a garbage
collection on the Nix store. That is, all paths in the Nix store not
reachable via file system references from a set of “roots”, are deleted.
The following suboperations may be specified:
- `--print-roots`\
This operation prints on standard output the set of roots used by
the garbage collector.
- `--print-live`\
This operation prints on standard output the set of “live” store
paths, which are all the store paths reachable from the roots. Live
paths should never be deleted, since that would break consistency —
it would become possible that applications are installed that
reference things that are no longer present in the store.
- `--print-dead`\
This operation prints out on standard output the set of “dead” store
paths, which is just the opposite of the set of live paths: any path
in the store that is not live (with respect to the roots) is dead.
By default, all unreachable paths are deleted. The following options
control what gets deleted and in what order:
- `--max-freed` *bytes*\
Keep deleting paths until at least *bytes* bytes have been deleted,
then stop. The argument *bytes* can be followed by the
multiplicative suffix `K`, `M`, `G` or `T`, denoting KiB, MiB, GiB
or TiB units.
The behaviour of the collector is also influenced by the
`keep-outputs` and `keep-derivations` settings in the Nix
configuration file.
By default, the collector prints the total number of freed bytes when it
finishes (or when it is interrupted). With `--print-dead`, it prints the
number of bytes that would be freed.
{{#include ./opt-common.md}}
{{#include ../opt-common.md}}
{{#include ../env-common.md}}
# Examples
To delete all unreachable paths, just do:
```console
$ nix-store --gc
deleting `/nix/store/kq82idx6g0nyzsp2s14gfsc38npai7lf-cairo-1.0.4.tar.gz.drv'
...
8825586 bytes freed (8.42 MiB)
```
To delete at least 100 MiBs of unreachable paths:
```console
$ nix-store --gc --max-freed $((100 * 1024 * 1024))
```