diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 7ab424292e..677fc57c1a 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -1314,7 +1314,9 @@ guix package}). @cindex garbage collector Packages that are installed but not used may be @dfn{garbage-collected}. The @command{guix gc} command allows users to explicitly run the garbage -collector to reclaim space from the @file{/gnu/store} directory. +collector to reclaim space from the @file{/gnu/store} directory. It is +the @emph{only} way to remove files from @file{/gnu/store}---removing +files or directories manually may break it beyond repair! The garbage collector has a set of known @dfn{roots}: any file under @file{/gnu/store} reachable from a root is considered @dfn{live} and |