lix/src/nix/store-delete.md

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Examples

• Delete a specific store path:

  # nix store delete /nix/store/yb5q57zxv6hgqql42d5r8b5k5mcq6kay-hello-2.10
  

Description

This command deletes the store paths specified by installables. , but only if it is safe to do so; that is, when the path is not reachable from a root of the garbage collector. This means that you can only delete paths that would also be deleted by nix store gc. Thus, nix store delete is a more targeted version of nix store gc.

With the option --ignore-liveness, reachability from the roots is ignored. However, the path still won't be deleted if there are other paths in the store that refer to it (i.e., depend on it).

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