Hi, Elias Kueny <[email protected]> skribis:
> The problem is the size of /gnu/store/.links: after garbage collection > with "guix gc --delete-generations=1w", /gnu/store is 17.4 GB in > total, and /gnu/store/.links is 14.5 GB (344120 items, ranging from 93 > MB to 4.1 kB each). This is expected: /gnu/store/.links contains hard links to other files in /gnu/store. IOW /gnu/store/.links is a subset of the rest of /gnu/store, sharing the same inodes. > The garbage collector prints that "currently hard linking saves > 3717.77 MiB". With a 40GB hard drive, the gnu store regularly fills > up all the available space if I'm not careful. I found from an old > issue (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/24937#1) that 10 millions links > should need around 700 MB, so this sounds like a bug. Note that the issue you mention was addressed to a large extent in 2021: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/24937#20 HTH! Ludo’.
