What should I do about the *-bin files in /var/lib/mysql? I've dropped the databases I've created and don't need anymore, but there's still a lot of files in there, and it's still 21G. There are several files there dated 2008 that are also on another computer. How do I safely remove them?
On 07/17/11 17:17, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:19:14 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > >> I'm running into space issues (my / partition is at 99% of capacity) and >> I'd like some advice on what I can remove and how. > > It's impossible to answer that without knowing what is on /. Is /var > on /? If so do you use logrotate, or is /var/lib/mysql full of .bin files? > > Without knowing what is taking up the space, you can't know what needs to > be removed. The first step could be > > mount --bind / /mnt/tmp > du -ch /mnt/tmp/* > >
