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From: "Peter P." <peterparker@fastmail.com>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Error while compacting: inflate failed
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:17:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230719151753.3nmbkk64vt766cl6@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sf9kw62t.fsf@tethera.net>

* David Bremner <david@tethera.net> [2023-07-19 12:26]:
> "Peter P." <peterparker@fastmail.com> writes:
> >
> > Thanks David,
> > 	$ notmuch dump --output=/tmp/dump
> > runs without errors, albeit the dumped file is only 6.9MB while the
> > xapian folder has 851MB. Is this correct?
> 
> Yes, that sounds about right. The dump only includes the tags (it should
> more or less make sense if you inspect the first few lines) rather then
> the index structures needed for fast lookup, and in particular the dump
> does not include the original text of the messages, while the database
> effectively does.
> 
> > I can easily rebuild the database even without the dump as I am not
> > using tags at all by simply deleting the xapian folder, right?
> 
> Yes, that should work.

Thanks again, this fixed the error!
best, P

      reply	other threads:[~2023-07-19 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-18  4:17 Error while compacting: inflate failed Peter P.
2023-07-18 10:33 ` David Bremner
2023-07-19  8:41   ` Peter P.
2023-07-19 10:26     ` David Bremner
2023-07-19 15:17       ` Peter P. [this message]

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