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How to reclaim space when no space is available?

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: noloader <at> gmail.com, 53000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53000: How to reclaim space when no space is available?
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 12:30:52 -0500

On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 05:00:38AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Jeffrey Walton <noloader <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Does anyone know how to delete all old packages and artifacts without
> > the need for some free disk space?
> 
> Are there are any nonessential files on that partition, outside of the
> store, that could be temporarily moved elsewhere, or deleted?  Perhaps
> old logs from /var/log, e.g. old build logs from /var/log/guix/drvs?

There may also be '/var/cache' and '/root/.cache', which should be safe
to delete. The latter will definitely share a partition with the store,
and the former will probably share the partition.

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