From c22eb9927f1ca6e8a724f9e634ce14700f888c6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 21:44:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Make it clear that store items must not be deleted by hand. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix gc): Add that this is the only way to delete files. --- doc/guix.texi | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 7ab424292e33e4f8677c1de00fcfb27289f5be9f..677fc57c1a506798e5b2e8b0bbb50d681c231307 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -1314,7 +1314,9 @@ guix package}). @cindex garbage collector Packages that are installed but not used may be @dfn{garbage-collected}. The @command{guix gc} command allows users to explicitly run the garbage -collector to reclaim space from the @file{/gnu/store} directory. +collector to reclaim space from the @file{/gnu/store} directory. It is +the @emph{only} way to remove files from @file{/gnu/store}---removing +files or directories manually may break it beyond repair! The garbage collector has a set of known @dfn{roots}: any file under @file{/gnu/store} reachable from a root is considered @dfn{live} and