How to use gfix on Windows
gfix -user SYSDBA -password masterkey localhost:C:\MyDatabase.fdb -v -f gfix is Firebird’s command line tool for administration issues like data repair, sweeping etc. Above is the syntax for how to use this tool on a Windows machine.
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gfix.exe is located in your Firebird installation directory.
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-v option in the above example specifies that we want to validate the database.
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-f options means full to mean all records and pages and release unassigned record fragments.
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localhost specifies that database is located on this machine only.
Following page has details of all the options that can be used with gfix.