[bug#33374] [PATCH] doc: guix: Inform about deleting old system generations

[zimoun]

Hi,

Look at old patches, I hit this patch#33374:

    <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/33374>


On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 09:21, swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> wrote:

> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs?
> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 02:13:43 -0500
> From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
> To: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
> CC: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>, Guix-Help <help-guix@gnu.org>
>
>>> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>
> snip
>
>>> When I want to free up some disk space, I do the following steps:
>>>
>>> (1) update my user profiles and delete old generations
>>> (2) delete older generations in /var/guix/profiles (but always
>>>      keeping the one referenced by /run/booted-system!)
>>> (3) reconfigure the system to remove the old system profiles from
>>>      grub.cfg
>>> (4) guix gc
>> This would be nice to have in the manual I think.
>
> Would you like to propose a patch?
>
>      Mark

>From my point of the view, this submission should be for the Cookbook.
WDYT?


Cheers,
simon