# List and delete NixOS generations

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/list-and-delete-nixos-generations/29637
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [June 26, 2023, 7:55am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/list-and-delete-nixos-generations/29637 "2023-06-26T07:55:13Z")
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### Author: ![raboof](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/raboof/32/1681_2.png) [@raboof](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/raboof)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2023, 8:28am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/list-and-delete-nixos-generations/29637/2 "2023-06-26T08:28:30Z")

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Go to `/nix/var/nix/profiles/` and remove symlinks for generations you want to delete, then `nix store gc`.

Indeed I didn’t see an obvious place where this is documented - either I didn’t look in the right place yet or that might be something that’s worth improving 🙂

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