<?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" href="styles.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2" /><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Version Control with Subversion" /><link rel="up" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html#svn.ref.svnadmin.c" title="svnadmin Subcommands" /><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 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"><span class="command"><strong>svnadmin</strong></span> Subcommands</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" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.list-unused-dblogs"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><a id="id422981" class="indexterm"></a><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>svnadmin list-unused-dblogs — Ask Berkeley DB which log files can be safely deleted (applies only to repositories using the <code class="literal">bdb</code> backend).</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id423013"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="programlisting">svnadmin list-unused-dblogs REPOS_PATH</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id423026"></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 log files 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" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id423050"></a><h2>Examples</h2><p>Remove all unused log files from a repository:</p><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 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#svn.ref.svnadmin.c">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></body></html>