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 Freeing Archive Disk Space
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Periodically to free disk space used by Borg archive storage, run the
``borg compact`` command with your repo URL:

.. code-block:: sh

   sudo borg compact --progress --verbose borg@cloud.example.com:/path/to/borg-repos/myserver

The first time you do so, specify ``--cleanup-commits`` to ensure legacy cruft is removed.

For more info see :doc:`borg:usage/compact`.