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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-02-17 14:48:50 +0100
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-02-17 14:48:50 +0100
commit1da6ae4f9904f7e09166085a2cfed8887e0e86d4 (patch)
tree9e126907178d7627e02114cb7137256de1996592 /doc/manual
parent00d30496ca32145f55891364ddcf3d4af87f05d5 (diff)
downloadguix-1da6ae4f9904f7e09166085a2cfed8887e0e86d4.tar.gz
nix-store --gc --max-freed: Support a unit specifier
E.g. "--max-freed 10G" means "free ten gigabytes".
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/nix-store.xml b/doc/manual/nix-store.xml
index 63ddef28e1..416438a0bd 100644
--- a/doc/manual/nix-store.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/nix-store.xml
@@ -296,8 +296,12 @@ options control what gets deleted and in what order:
   <varlistentry><term><option>--max-freed</option> <replaceable>bytes</replaceable></term>
   
     <listitem><para>Keep deleting paths until at least
-    <replaceable>bytes</replaceable> bytes have been
-    deleted, then stop.</para></listitem>
+    <replaceable>bytes</replaceable> bytes have been deleted, then
+    stop.  The argument <replaceable>bytes</replaceable> can be
+    followed by the multiplicative suffix <literal>K</literal>,
+    <literal>M</literal>, <literal>G</literal> or
+    <literal>T</literal>, denoting KiB, MiB, GiB or TiB
+    units.</para></listitem>
     
   </varlistentry>