# What's the different between rebuild and bootstrap

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**Created:** [April 2, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-different-between-rebuild-and-bootstrap/60315 "2017-04-02T10:42:51Z")\
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> [@sam](#):
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> Rebuild is a shortcut for the sequence: stop, bootstrap, destroy and then start

Did you mean: stop, destroy… bootstrap, start? (i.e. destroy would come before bootstrapping. Otherwise how would it know which one to delete from 2 stopped containers?)

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