From 055bc462024bdef00b4fa5ce377c1f18b128c2d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 20:49:28 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update wimoptimize documentation --- doc/man1/imagex-optimize.1.in | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/man1/imagex-optimize.1.in b/doc/man1/imagex-optimize.1.in index 5a2b3f2b..3b0cca21 100644 --- a/doc/man1/imagex-optimize.1.in +++ b/doc/man1/imagex-optimize.1.in @@ -8,8 +8,11 @@ WIM is written to a temporary file, and it is renamed to the original file when it's ready. This action will remove any holes that have been left as a result of appending images, so the new WIM may be slightly smaller than the old WIM. -In addition, some errors in the original WIM may be fixed by re-writing it -(although most cannot). +.PP +By default, compressed data will be re-used, and not recompressed. Use the +\fB--recompress\fR or \fB--compress\fR=\fITYPE\fR[:\fILEVEL\fR] option to +request recompression. +.PP This command is also available as simply \fBwimoptimize\fR if the appropriate hard link or batch file has been installed. .SH OPTIONS @@ -27,11 +30,9 @@ include an integrity table in the rebuilt WIM file. .TP \fB--recompress\fR Recompress all compressed streams in \fIWIMFILE\fR when rebuilding it. This -will increase the time needed to rebuild the WIM, unless the WIM is -uncompressed, but it may result in a better compression ratio if wimlib can do a -better job than the program that wrote the original file. A side effect of this -is that every stream in the original WIM will be checksummed, so this can help -verify that the WIM is intact (equivalent to applying all the images from it). +will greatly increase the time needed to rebuild the WIM file, but it may result +in a better compression ratio if wimlib can do a better job than the program +that wrote the original file. .TP \fB--compress\fR=\fITYPE\fR[:\fILEVEL\fR] Recompress the WIM file using the specified compression type, and optionally the @@ -63,8 +64,8 @@ more details. .TP \fB--threads\fR=\fINUM_THREADS\fR Number of threads to use for compressing data. Default: autodetect (number of -processors). This parameter is only meaningful when \fB--recompress\fR is also -specified. +processors). This parameter only has an effect when data recompression is +requested. .TP \fB--pipable\fR Rebuild the WIM so that it can be applied fully sequentially, including from a @@ -85,6 +86,29 @@ Rebuild the WIM in the non-pipable format. (This is the default if \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ export\fR \fIWIMFILE\fR all tmp.wim && mv tmp.wim \fIWIMFILE\fR .RE .PP +.SH EXAMPLES +Rebuild the WIM file 'install.wim': +.RS +.PP +wimoptimize install.wim +.RE +.PP +Rebuild and recompress the WIM file 'install.wim': +.RS +.PP +wimoptimize install.wim --recompress +.RE +.PP +Rebuild and recompress the WIM file 'install.wim', using "maximum" (LZX) +compression at a higher-than-default compression level. The compression chunk +size remains unchanged. This command will be slow, but it might be useful for +optimizing files for distribution. See the COMPRESSION RATIO section of the +README file for some benchmark results. +.RS +.PP +wimoptimize install.wim --compress=maximum:100 +.RE +.PP .SH SEE ALSO .BR @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ (1) .BR @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@-export (1) -- 2.43.0