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## Stop and Restart KVLite

To stop and restart KVLite, perform the following steps:

To stop KVLite, use `Ctrl C (^C)` from within the shell where KVLite is running.

To restart the process, run the KVLite utility without any command line options. Do this even if you provided non-standard options when you first started KVLite. This is because KVLite remembers information such as the port value and the store name in between run times. You cannot change these values by using the command line options.

    $ java -Xmx64m -Xms64m -jar KVHOME/lib/kvstore.jar kvlite

If you want to start over with different options than you initially specified, delete the `KVROOT` directory (`./kvroot`), and then rerun the KVLite utility with the options you need. Refer to Start KVLite.

Note: If you decide to start over, all your previous data will be lost.