Hi All
I’m new to NIX so trying to understand best practice on how to reclaim space from the build process.
Quick question on the build process using nix-build for a Cardano node, it builds a lot of things without installing them taking up a lot of space. If you run the garbage collector “nix-collect-garbage -d” to free up space is your node install preserved or is there another command on nix-build to clean up after the build process?
Using the command:-
nix-build -A scripts.testnet.node -o testnet-node
It ends with the output
building ‘/nix/store/mv3jw72f9d9xxk734q8cnir6kzyknspz-cabal2nix-iohk-nix-utils.drv’…
installing
/nix/store/gvyhczqm4zn0sx5qh2h4sdhnxpd821v3-cardano-node-testnet
[cardanonode@nixos:~/cardano-node]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 406540 0 406540 0% /dev
tmpfs 4065388 0 4065388 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 2032696 10020 2022676 1% /run
tmpfs 4065384 504 4064880 1% /run/wrappers
/dev/sda1 24123760 17696708 5178592 78% /
tmpfs 4096 0 4096 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3 522224 52152 470072 10% /boot
tmpfs 813076 44 813032 1% /run/user/1000
So I’m trying to understand whats the best way to reclaim this disk space safetly without destroying my install ?
Thanks in advance