They are mysql binary logs of updates to your databases, and are usually
only needed for replication across multiple servers. If you don't need this,
remove or comment out the log-bin line from /etc/my.cnf and restart mysqld,
then you can delete them.
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am running a webserver with around 100.000 hits per day running
> mostly on
> PHP / MySQL.
> In the mysql-data-directory (for my home /var/lib/mysql) I find a some
> files named:
> ./server-bin.009
> ./server-bin.010
> ./server-bin.011
> ./server-bin.012
> ./server-bin.013
> ./server-bin.014
>
> and so on (001 - 014).
> Some of them are really HUGE (300 MB i.e.) ... which is bigger than my
> whole database.
> Could someone tell me what this files are for?
>
> Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english
>
> Thomas
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