[Nix-dev] root doesn't have permissions to nix-store --optimise

Luca Bruno lethalman88 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 14 09:28:37 CEST 2014


On 13/07/2014 17:56, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to free up some space so I wanted to run --optimise but
> apparently I'm no longer allowed to:
>
> [root at lenalee:/home/shana/programming/haddock]# nix-store --optimise
> 0.00 MiB freed by hard-linking 0 files; there are 0 files with equal
> contents out of 0 files in total
> error: you don't have sufficient rights to use this command
>
> Does anyone know what's up?
>
try NIX_REMOTE= nix-store --optimise


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