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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 2345617b2e..406bea34d1 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -3438,8 +3438,22 @@ as @code{500MiB}, as described above. When @var{free} or more is already available in @file{/gnu/store}, do nothing and exit immediately. +@item --delete-generations[=@var{duration}] +@itemx -d [@var{duration}] +Before starting the garbage collection process, delete all the generations +older than @var{duration}, for all the user profiles; when run as root, this +applies to all the profiles @emph{of all the users}. + +For example, this command deletes all the generations of all your profiles +that are older than 2 months (except generations that are current), and then +proceeds to free space until at least 10 GiB are available: + +@example +guix gc -d 2m -F 10G +@end example + @item --delete -@itemx -d +@itemx -D Attempt to delete all the store files and directories specified as arguments. This fails if some of the files are not in the store, or if they are still live. |