Hi! ----- Original Message ----- From: "walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.mysql Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 10:24 PM Subject: Re: Ibdata1 file thats just too big...
> "Williamson, David" wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > My Ibdatafile is set too big (the disk is full to the point that nothing is > > executing properly) I am wondering is it safe to delete this file and then > > in the my.cnf file reset the size to something smaller... - how does the > > Ibdata file work in conjunction with mysql... > > Will I lose data if I do this? Yes, you will lose the data since InnoDB tables are contained in the ibdata files. You should first convert your InnoDB tables to MyISAM with ALTER TABLE tablename TYPE=MyISAM Then you can delete and resize the ibdata files. Then convert back. Best regards, Heikki Tuuri Innobase Oy --- InnoDB - transactions, hot backup, and foreign key support for MySQL See http://www.innodb.com, download MySQL-Max from http://www.mysql.com > > Many thanks, > > > > David > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Before posting, please check: > > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > windows or linux? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
