For a vm created with nixos-rebuild build-vm. What is the recommended way to clear out that VM?
Ken
For a vm created with nixos-rebuild build-vm. What is the recommended way to clear out that VM?
Ken
As in just reset its hard disk? Just delete the qcow2 file. That should be the only state for the VM.
I mean more like make it like it never existed, and clear out the result link and the associated entry in /nix/store
The simple answer: just remove the result link and run garbage collection. This will remove all paths that aren’t reachable from gc roots.
To get an overview of the gc roots:
❯ nix-store --gc --print-roots
If you only want to delete stuff that a specific build pulled in, you’ll probably have to do some more work, I came up with this:
p=$(readlink result)
rm result
for i in $(nix-store --query --requisites $p); do
nix-store --delete $i
done
You could probably make this a bit more efficient by filtering nix-store -qR $p
with nix-store --gc --print-dead
.
That is what I needed. Thank you very much.
Ken