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wimlib-imagex-delete(1)


NAME

   wimlib-imagex-delete - Delete an image from a WIM archive

SYNOPSIS

   wimlib-imagex delete WIMFILE IMAGE [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

   wimlib-imagex  delete  deletes  the  specified  image  from the Windows
   Imaging (WIM) file WIMFILE.  This command is also available  as  simply
   wimdelete  if  the  appropriate  hard  link  or  batch  file  has  been
   installed.

   IMAGE specifies the WIM image in  WIMFILE  to  delete.   It  may  be  a
   1-based  index of an image in the WIM, the name of an image in the WIM,
   or the keyword "all" to indicate that all images  are  to  be  deleted.
   Use  the  wimlib-imagex info (1) command to show what images a WIM file
   contains.

NOTES

   By default, the WIM file is rebuilt  with  all  unnecessary  file  data
   removed.   This  is  different  from Microsoft's ImageX and DISM, which
   only will delete the directory tree metadata  and  XML  data  for  this
   operation.  (See the --soft option for the other kind of delete).

   Also  wimlib  allows you to delete all the images from a WIM and have a
   WIM with 0 images, although such a file wouldn't be very useful.

   wimlib-imagex delete does not support split WIMs.

OPTIONS

   --check
         When reading WIMFILE, verify its integrity if the integrity table
         is  present;  additionally,  when  rewriting  WIMFILE  after  the
         specified image was deleted, always write an integrity table.  If
         this  option  is not specified, the integrity of WIMFILE will not
         be checked when it's opened,  but  an  integrity  table  will  be
         written in the updated WIM if and only if one was present before.

   --soft
         Perform  a  "soft  delete".   Specifying  this flag overrides the
         default behavior of rebuilding the entire WIM after  deleting  an
         image.   Instead,  only  minimal  changes to correctly remove the
         image from the WIM will be taken.   In  particular,  all  streams
         will  be left alone, even if they are no longer referenced.  This
         is probably not what you want, because no space will be saved  by
         deleting an image in this way.

         You may use wimlib-imagex optimize to delete unreferenced streams
         from a WIM that has had images soft-deleted from it.

   --unsafe-compact
         Compact  the  WIM  archive  in-place,  eliminating  "holes".   In
         general,  this  option  should  not  be  used because a failed or
         interrupted compaction will corrupt the WIM  archive.   For  more
         information,  see  the  documentation  for this option in wimlib-
         imagex-optimize (1).

EXAMPLES

   Delete the first image from 'boot.wim':

          wimlib-imagex delete boot.wim 1

SEE ALSO

   wimlib-imagex(1) wimlib-imagex-info(1) wimlib-imagex-optimize(1)



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