1 .TH NOTMUCH-COMPACT 1 2013-08-23 "Notmuch 0.16"
3 notmuch-compact \- compact the notmuch database
12 command can be used to compact the notmuch database. This can both reduce
13 the space required by the database and improve lookup performance.
15 The compacted database is built in a temporary directory and is later
16 moved into the place of the origin database. The original uncompacted
17 database is preserved to be deleted by the user as desired.
19 Note that the database write lock will be held during the compaction
20 process (which may be quite long) to protect data integrity.
24 The following environment variables can be used to control the
28 Specifies the location of the notmuch configuration file. Notmuch will
29 use ${HOME}/.notmuch\-config if this variable is not set.
32 \fBnotmuch\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-count\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1),
33 \fBnotmuch-hooks\fR(5), \fBnotmuch-insert\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-new\fR(1),
34 \fBnotmuch-reply\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-restore\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-search\fR(1),
35 \fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7), \fBnotmuch-show\fR(1),