wimdelete - Delete an image from a WIM archive
wimdelete WIMFILE IMAGE
[OPTION...]
wimdelete, or equivalently wimlib-imagex delete,
deletes the specified image from the Windows Imaging (WIM) archive
WIMFILE.
IMAGE specifies the WIM image in WIMFILE to delete.
It may be the 1-based index of an image, the name of an image, or the
keyword "all" to specify all images. You can use wiminfo(1)
to list the images contained in WIMFILE.
By default, wimdelete rebuilds the WIM 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. Use --soft if you want the other kind of delete.
wimlib allows you to delete all the images from a WIM and have a
WIM with 0 images, although such a file may not be very useful.
wimdelete does not support split WIMs.
- --check
- Before deleting the image, verify the WIM's integrity if extra integrity
information is present. In addition, include extra integrity information
in the modified WIM, even if it was not present before.
- --include-integrity
- Include extra integrity information in the modified WIM, i.e. like
--check but don't do any verification beforehand.
- --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 file resources will be left alone, even
if they are no longer referenced. This may not be what you want, because
no space will be saved by deleting an image in this way. However,
wimoptimize can later be used to rebuild a WIM file that has had
images soft-deleted from it.
- --unsafe-compact
- Compact the WIM archive in-place, eliminating "holes". This is
efficient, but 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 to
wimoptimize(1).
Delete the first image from 'boot.wim':