<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>svnadmin list-unused-dblogs</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1" /> <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url('images/draft.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: top left; /* The following properties make the watermark "fixed" on the page. */ /* I think that's just a bit too distracting for the reader... */ /* background-attachment: fixed; */ /* background-position: center center; */ }</style> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Version Control with Subversion [DRAFT]" /> <link rel="up" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html" title="svnadmin Reference—Subversion Repository Administration" /> <link rel="prev" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.list-dblogs.html" title="svnadmin list-dblogs" /> <link rel="next" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.load.html" title="svnadmin load" /> </head> <body> <div xmlns="" id="vcws-version-notice"> <p>This text is a work in progress—highly subject to change—and may not accurately describe any released version of the Apache™ Subversion® software. Bookmarking or otherwise referring others to this page is probably not such a smart idea. Please visit <a href="http://www.svnbook.com/">http://www.svnbook.com/</a> for stable versions of this book.</p> </div> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">svnadmin list-unused-dblogs</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.list-dblogs.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">svnadmin Reference—Subversion Repository Administration</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.load.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="refentry"> <a id="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.list-unused-dblogs"></a> <div class="titlepage"></div> <a id="idm13791" class="indexterm"></a> <div class="refnamediv"> <h2>Name</h2> <p>svnadmin list-unused-dblogs — Ask Berkeley DB which logfiles can be safely deleted (applies only to repositories using the <code class="literal">bdb</code> backend).</p> </div> <div class="refsynopsisdiv"> <h2>Synopsis</h2> <p> <code class="literal">svnadmin list-unused-dblogs REPOS_PATH</code> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm13802"></a> <h2>Description</h2> <p>Berkeley DB creates logs of all changes to the repository, which allow it to recover in the face of catastrophe. Unless you enable <code class="literal">DB_LOG_AUTOREMOVE</code>, the logfiles accumulate, although most are no longer used and can be deleted to reclaim disk space. See <a class="xref" href="svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.diskspace" title="Managing Disk Space">the section called “Managing Disk Space”</a> for more information.</p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm13807"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p>Remove all unused logfiles from the repository:</p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> $ svnadmin list-unused-dblogs /var/svn/repos /var/svn/repos/log.0000000031 /var/svn/repos/log.0000000032 /var/svn/repos/log.0000000033 $ svnadmin list-unused-dblogs /var/svn/repos | xargs rm ## disk space reclaimed! </pre> </div> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.list-dblogs.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.load.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">svnadmin list-dblogs </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> svnadmin load</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div xmlns="" id="vcws-footer"> <hr /> <img src="images/cc-by.png" style="float: right;" /> <p>You are reading <em>Version Control with Subversion</em> (for Subversion 1.8), by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, and C. Michael Pilato.</p> <p>This work is licensed under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License v2.0</a>.</p> <p>To submit comments, corrections, or other contributions to the text, please visit <a href="http://www.svnbook.com/">http://www.svnbook.com/</a>.</p> </div> </body> </html>