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# Name
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`nix-store --delete` - delete store paths
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# Synopsis
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`nix-store` `--delete` [`--ignore-liveness`] *paths…*
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# Description
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The operation `--delete` deletes the store paths *paths* from the Nix
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store, but only if it is safe to do so; that is, when the path is not
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reachable from a root of the garbage collector. This means that you can
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only delete paths that would also be deleted by `nix-store --gc`. Thus,
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`--delete` is a more targeted version of `--gc`.
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With the option `--ignore-liveness`, reachability from the roots is
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ignored. However, the path still won’t be deleted if there are other
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paths in the store that refer to it (i.e., depend on it).
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{{#include ./opt-common.md}}
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{{#include ../opt-common.md}}
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{{#include ../env-common.md}}
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# Example
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```console
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$ nix-store --delete /nix/store/zq0h41l75vlb4z45kzgjjmsjxvcv1qk7-mesa-6.4
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0 bytes freed (0.00 MiB)
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error: cannot delete path `/nix/store/zq0h41l75vlb4z45kzgjjmsjxvcv1qk7-mesa-6.4' since it is still alive
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```
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