Re: Are 'guix gc' stats exaggerated?

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Sun, 26 May 2024 at 13:13, Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and 
the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> wrote:

> By my math, about 65.8 GiB were recovered.
>
> When 'guix gc' was done, it announced:
>
>     [184389 MiB] deleting '/gnu/store/...'
>     deleting `/gnu/store/trash'
>     deleting unused links...
>     note: currently hard linking saves 59224.03 MiB
>     guix gc: freed 110,649.49 MiBs

Well, 180 GiB does not count deduplication, I guess.  And as Efraim
said, the ratio on average is 3:1 so 65 GiB vs 180 GiB seems consistent,
right?

However, the question is then: what are these 110 GiB?

Cheers,
simon