NAME

       notmuch-compact - compact the notmuch database

SYNOPSIS

       notmuch compact [ --quiet ] [ --backup=<directory> ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  compact command can be used to compact the notmuch database. This can both reduce the space required
       by the database and improve lookup performance.

       The compacted database is built in a temporary directory and is later moved into the place of the  origin
       database. The original uncompacted database is discarded, unless the --backup=<directory> option is used.

       Note that the database write lock will be held during the compaction process (which may be quite long) to
       protect data integrity.

       Supported options for compact include

           --backup=<directory>

               Save the current database to the given directory before replacing it with the compacted database.
               The  backup  directory  must  not  exist and it must reside on the same mounted filesystem as the
               current database.

           --quiet

               Do not report database compaction progress to stdout.

ENVIRONMENT

       The following environment variables can be used to control the behavior of notmuch.

       NOTMUCH_CONFIG
              Specifies the location of the notmuch configuration file. Notmuch will use ${HOME}/.notmuch-config
              if this variable is not set.

SEE ALSO

       notmuch(1),  notmuch-count(1),  notmuch-dump(1),  notmuch-hooks(5),  notmuch-insert(1),   notmuch-new(1),
       notmuch-reply(1),   notmuch-restore(1),   notmuch-search(1),   notmuch-search-terms(7),  notmuch-show(1),
       notmuch-tag(1)

Notmuch 0.17                                       2013-12-30                                 NOTMUCH-COMPACT(1)