From unknown Sat Aug 16 11:42:16 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#62379: /gnu/store/.links filling the hard drive on foreign distro Resent-From: Elias Kueny Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-guix@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:03:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 62379 X-GNU-PR-Package: guix X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: 62379@debbugs.gnu.org X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-guix@gnu.org Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.167949013421571 (code B ref -1); Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:03:02 +0000 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Mar 2023 13:02:14 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33811 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pey6Y-0005bq-EC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:02:14 -0400 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:34290) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pey6W-0005bi-Np for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:02:13 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pey6R-0008O2-Sv for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:02:10 -0400 Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pey6O-0002aY-Oe for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:02:06 -0400 Received: from submission (posteo.de [185.67.36.169]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E293240147 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:02:01 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1679490121; bh=IKf4CaoD0z7CqaRPWGJDcgx+OQj0w4Wkv2YMtBLmmX0=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:From; b=k+HoRK/wIeVVE4L8RIvKNkU8GEBRQyDY8kZFogySlamFI6pLxypN4StRB+4qS6XdZ 6edoCOVE1oFIrNM3tIA8AD5tjFG3uoORnPipnpG/Nl7glnC4ePV6sOY1cUY8OSVG5y CDvisozQuv2cmsgRd89RrQ5pxD0FVbp2JaUnU/RawUro5VQL/KbnfPSSQJLuNPzGil +jacK4xGhx5inMEal1GZozwiTEgpG+Sp18kAJu/xEXeNJXxnvqOZ2sRYN6kUdl7xha nHj/JTuNhOv05xYSvDhQTzfqTzoqcB3MwmGtdXuJTLAdI1THeBp4TJPVeixTV6J3xV I3C05wMpwWhqQ== Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4PhTBw5LrSz6tmx for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:02:00 +0100 (CET) From: Elias Kueny Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:48:04 +0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.66; envelope-from=elias.kueny@posteo.net; helo=mout02.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Spam-Score: -1.3 (-) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) Hello, I'm using guix over a foreign distro (Ubuntu 22.04). I initially installed guix from the Ubuntu repositories (version 1.3.0-4), and updated as user with guix pull (work computer: I don't have root access to run the installer script). 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). 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. After garbage collection, there are only 16 profiles left in /var/guix/profiles/per-user/ for my account: 2 for current-guix, 2 for guix-profile, and the rest for guix-home (where almost every program is installed), plus one guix shell profile I keep activated during gc to not uninstall it. I can't check for the root account, but I'm guessing it contains only the profile of the initial guix installation. There are no other users. I tried uninstalling the original guix from the Ubuntu repositories in case the issue is due to some interference between it and the current guix I pulled as user, but /var/guix/daemon-socket/socket was gone with it, so I couldn't try to run the garbage collection. Elias From unknown Sat Aug 16 11:42:16 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#62379: /gnu/store/.links filling the hard drive on foreign distro Resent-From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-guix@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2023 21:13:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 62379 X-GNU-PR-Package: guix X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: Elias Kueny Cc: 62379@debbugs.gnu.org Received: via spool by 62379-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B62379.168098837919882 (code B ref 62379); Sat, 08 Apr 2023 21:13:02 +0000 Received: (at 62379) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Apr 2023 21:12:59 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59730 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1plFrn-0005Ac-HY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:12:59 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46104) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1plFrm-0005AQ-0o for 62379@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:12:58 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1plFrg-0002LU-Fe; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:12:52 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:To: From; bh=Wwbcw5gszReAhr0+gxzPi4d/Gy+MVJV/m2NyUsQAAsQ=; b=GH39x9hy/gpA4Q6Nt6es 2pOwZjWjvNAWFoWKvbyrp0cZ9HZpoMIwhHLQodyowZxdKqQ7jNdKoOm0bAIja7KYaKNtsk8FtT7yZ tfaXxZqKfWqm8ZxGh8BAXve5mhbRuKcnsDkLz28YNV7nJ4Il9YP/9OuqXHN43b1Wyxm9Y1GFCQgWZ 179IAjiwhC8pdf9RbzBzMeyUYu1bVHXywlnnMUSP1LEUD5qDpODpTk9v2O0PqZGFYoCsexi/GC+fV wIsvkNBQ0ng73xAaxDSNELErBRFLGy+PiVnIWc9NT6fYNClifwys3bYje2QY6kriVl0OxFMwRB2JN qVxcJNShobRQWA==; Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1plFrY-0002eR-Iy; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:12:46 -0400 From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= References: Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2023 23:12:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Elias Kueny's message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:48:04 +0000") Message-ID: <87cz4eaxit.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) Hi, Elias Kueny skribis: > The problem is the size of /gnu/store/.links: after garbage collection > with "guix gc --delete-generations=3D1w", /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=E2=80=99. From unknown Sat Aug 16 11:42:16 2025 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.505 (Entity 5.505) X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org From: help-debbugs@gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System) To: Elias Kueny Subject: bug#62379: closed (Re: bug#62379: /gnu/store/.links filling the hard drive on foreign distro) Message-ID: References: <877ctk18su.fsf@gmail.com> X-Gnu-PR-Message: they-closed 62379 X-Gnu-PR-Package: guix Reply-To: 62379@debbugs.gnu.org Date: Sun, 07 May 2023 15:06:02 +0000 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1683471962-32276-1" This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1683471962-32276-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Your bug report #62379: /gnu/store/.links filling the hard drive on foreign distro which was filed against the guix package, has been closed. The explanation is attached below, along with your original report. 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[72.10.131.119]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o11-20020ad443cb000000b0061b63237be3sm2090808qvs.131.2023.05.07.08.05.22 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 07 May 2023 08:05:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Maxim Cournoyer To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: bug#62379: /gnu/store/.links filling the hard drive on foreign distro References: <87cz4eaxit.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Sun, 07 May 2023 11:05:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87cz4eaxit.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s=22'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "Sat, 08 Apr 2023 23:12:42 +0200") Message-ID: <877ctk18su.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 62379-done Cc: 62379-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Elias Kueny X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Hi, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hi, > > Elias Kueny skribis: > >> The problem is the size of /gnu/store/.links: after garbage collection >> with "guix gc --delete-generations=3D1w", /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 > Closing, as this is working as intended. If you do not wish to use the guix-daemon deduplication feature, you can provide it with the '--disable-deduplication', with the caveat that your hard drive may be filled even faster :-). --=20 Thanks, Maxim ------------=_1683471962-32276-1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Mar 2023 13:02:14 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33811 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pey6Y-0005bq-EC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:02:14 -0400 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:34290) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pey6W-0005bi-Np for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:02:13 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pey6R-0008O2-Sv for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:02:10 -0400 Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pey6O-0002aY-Oe for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:02:06 -0400 Received: from submission (posteo.de [185.67.36.169]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E293240147 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:02:01 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1679490121; bh=IKf4CaoD0z7CqaRPWGJDcgx+OQj0w4Wkv2YMtBLmmX0=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:From; b=k+HoRK/wIeVVE4L8RIvKNkU8GEBRQyDY8kZFogySlamFI6pLxypN4StRB+4qS6XdZ 6edoCOVE1oFIrNM3tIA8AD5tjFG3uoORnPipnpG/Nl7glnC4ePV6sOY1cUY8OSVG5y CDvisozQuv2cmsgRd89RrQ5pxD0FVbp2JaUnU/RawUro5VQL/KbnfPSSQJLuNPzGil +jacK4xGhx5inMEal1GZozwiTEgpG+Sp18kAJu/xEXeNJXxnvqOZ2sRYN6kUdl7xha nHj/JTuNhOv05xYSvDhQTzfqTzoqcB3MwmGtdXuJTLAdI1THeBp4TJPVeixTV6J3xV I3C05wMpwWhqQ== Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4PhTBw5LrSz6tmx for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:02:00 +0100 (CET) From: Elias Kueny To: bug-guix@gnu.org Subject: /gnu/store/.links filling the hard drive on foreign distro Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:48:04 +0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.66; envelope-from=elias.kueny@posteo.net; helo=mout02.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Spam-Score: -1.3 (-) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) Hello, I'm using guix over a foreign distro (Ubuntu 22.04). I initially installed guix from the Ubuntu repositories (version 1.3.0-4), and updated as user with guix pull (work computer: I don't have root access to run the installer script). 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). 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. After garbage collection, there are only 16 profiles left in /var/guix/profiles/per-user/ for my account: 2 for current-guix, 2 for guix-profile, and the rest for guix-home (where almost every program is installed), plus one guix shell profile I keep activated during gc to not uninstall it. I can't check for the root account, but I'm guessing it contains only the profile of the initial guix installation. There are no other users. I tried uninstalling the original guix from the Ubuntu repositories in case the issue is due to some interference between it and the current guix I pulled as user, but /var/guix/daemon-socket/socket was gone with it, so I couldn't try to run the garbage collection. Elias ------------=_1683471962-32276-1--