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Saving space disk (innodb)

Saving space disk (innodb)

2007-10-10       - By mos

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At 01:24 PM 10/10/2007, Baron Schwartz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Tiago Cruz wrote:
>>Hello guys,
>>I have one monster database running on MySQL 4.0.17, using InnoDB:
>>270GB Oct 10 14:35 ibdata1
>>
>>I've deleted a lot of register of then, and I've expected that the size
>>can be decreased if 50% (135 GB) but the ibdata was the same value than
>>before "clean"...
>>How can I force to save this space?
>
>You must dump your data to files,

Why not change the table type to MyISAM instead of dumping to a file?

>shut down MySQL, delete your current InnoDB tablespace and log files,
>reconfigure the server, restart MySQL and let InnoDB create new (empty)
>files.  Then reload the data.

Then change the table type back to InnoDb.


>You should probably save your current data and tablespace files until you
>are sure you complete this successfully.

Agreed.


>It's an annoying procedure but there is no other way.

Yes it is a pain.  As I understand it, most people would prefer root canal
to this. :)

Mike

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