[Nix-dev] unable to delete a store path

[Mathijs Kwik]

Manually deleting will probably work, but I would like to find out why
the path is there and nix won't remove it.


On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
> Try manually deleting it:
> # unset readonly flag:
> chattr -R -i STORE_PATH
> # remove it:
> rm -fr STORE_PATH
>
> nix-store --verify should remove it automatically then.
> If it doesn't work you may have to delete it from the database manually
> (?). But then I'd make sure to have a backup.
>
> There may be more options, though
>
> Marc Weber
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