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diff --git a/doc/manual/nix-store.xml b/doc/manual/nix-store.xml index 9079fa3398b4..562a5439a6eb 100644 --- a/doc/manual/nix-store.xml +++ b/doc/manual/nix-store.xml @@ -213,8 +213,6 @@ linkend="sec-nix-build"><command>nix-build</command></link> does.</para> </group> <arg><option>--max-freed</option> <replaceable>bytes</replaceable></arg> <arg><option>--max-links</option> <replaceable>nrlinks</replaceable></arg> - <arg><option>--max-atime</option> <replaceable>atime</replaceable></arg> - <arg><option>--use-atime</option></arg> </cmdsynopsis> </refsection> @@ -292,42 +290,6 @@ options control what gets deleted and in what order: </varlistentry> - <varlistentry><term><option>--max-atime</option> <replaceable>atime</replaceable></term> - - <listitem><para>Only delete a store path if its last-accessed time - is less than <replaceable>atime</replaceable>. This allows you to - garbage-collect only packages that haven’t been used recently. - The time is expressed as the number of seconds in the Unix epoch, - i.e., since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. An easy way to convert to - this format is <literal>date +%s -d "<replaceable>date - specification</replaceable>"</literal>.</para> - - <para>For directories, the last-accessed time is the highest - last-accessed time of any regular file in the directory (or in any - of its subdirectories). That is, the <literal>atime</literal> - field maintained by the filesystem is ignored for directories. - This is because operations such as rebuilding the - <command>locate</command> database tend to update the - <literal>atime</literal> values of all directories, so they’re not - a useful indicator of whether a package was recently used.</para> - - <para>Note that <command>nix-store --optimise</command> reads all - regular files in the Nix store, and so causes all last-accessed - times to be set to the present time. This makes - <option>--max-atime</option> ineffective (for a while at - least).</para></listitem> - - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry><term><option>--use-atime</option></term> - - <listitem><para>Delete store paths in order of ascending - last-accessed time. This is useful in conjunction with the other - options to delete only the least recently used - packages.</para></listitem> - - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> </para> @@ -358,13 +320,6 @@ deleting `/nix/store/kq82idx6g0nyzsp2s14gfsc38npai7lf-cairo-1.0.4.tar.gz.drv' </para> -<para>To delete unreachable paths not accessed in the last two months: - -<screen> -$ nix-store --gc -v --max-atime $(date +%s -d "2 months ago")</screen> - -</para> - <para>To delete at least 100 MiBs of unreachable paths: <screen> |