nix-super/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-store/delete.md

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# Name
`nix-store --delete` - delete store paths
# Synopsis
`nix-store` `--delete` [`--ignore-liveness`] *paths…*
# Description
The operation `--delete` deletes the store paths *paths* from the Nix
store, 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,
`--delete` is a more targeted version of `--gc`.
With the option `--ignore-liveness`, reachability from the roots is
ignored. However, the path still wont be deleted if there are other
paths in the store that refer to it (i.e., depend on it).
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# Example
```console
$ nix-store --delete /nix/store/zq0h41l75vlb4z45kzgjjmsjxvcv1qk7-mesa-6.4
0 bytes freed (0.00 MiB)
error: cannot delete path `/nix/store/zq0h41l75vlb4z45kzgjjmsjxvcv1qk7-mesa-6.4' since it is still alive
```