doc: recommend -compact after --reindex

[public-inbox.git] / Documentation / public-inbox-index.pod

diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod
index 7679376c3664e76d6196d65aee15caaae55bd9a5..6dc6a3aac6aa3f82fb8916e71c8e49c9b647b4c6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod
+++ b/Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ Forces a search engine re-index of all messages in the
 repository.  This can be used for in-place upgrades while
 NNTP/HTTP server processes are utilizing the index.  Keep in
 mind this roughly doubles the size of the already-large
-Xapian database.
+Xapian database.  Running L<public-inbox-compact(1)>
+afterwards is recommended to release free space.
 
 This does not touch the NNTP article number database.
 
@@ -59,8 +60,6 @@ C<$GIT_DIR/public-inbox/> directory.
 
 v2 repositories are described in L<public-inbox-v2-format>.
 
-=back
-
 =head1 ENVIRONMENT
 
 =over 8