aria_pack (1) Linux Manual Page
NAME
aria_pack – generate compressed, read-only Aria tables
SYNOPSIS
aria_pack [OPTIONS] filename…
DESCRIPTION
Pack a Aria-table to take much less space. Keys are not updated, you must run aria_chk -rq on the index (.MAI) file afterwards to update the keys. You should give the .MAI file as the filename argument. To unpack a packed table, run aria_chk -u on the table
- -b, –backup
- Make a backup of the table as table_name.OLD.
- –character-sets-dir=name
- Directory where character sets are.
- -#, –debug[=name]
- Output debug log. Often this is ‘d:t:o,filename’.
- -f, –force
- Force packing of table even if it gets bigger or if tempfile exists.
- -j, –join=name
- Join all given tables into ‘new_table_name’. All tables MUST have identical layouts.
- -?, –help
- Display this help and exit.
- -s, –silent
- Be more silent.
- -T, –tmpdir=name
- Use temporary directory to store temporary table.
- -t, –test
- Don’t pack table, only test packing it.
- -v, –verbose
- Write info about progress and packing result. Use many -v for more verbosity!
- -V, –version
- Output version information and exit.
- -w, –wait
- Wait and retry if table is in use.
Default options are read from the following files in the given order: /etc/my.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf
The following groups are read: ariapack
The following options may be given as the first argument:
- –print-defaults
- Print the program argument list and exit.
- –no-defaults
- Don’t read default options from any option file.
- –defaults-file=#
- Only read default options from the given file #.
- –defaults-extra-file=#
- Read this file after the global files are read.
SEE ALSO
myisampack(1)
For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Knowledge Base, available online at https://mariadb.com/kb/