--- Egor Egorov wrote:
> Scott H wrote:
>> Can't seem to find this one in the manual or
>> archives - how do I control a db to maintain
>> its size to an arbitrary value, say 20 GB? I
>> want to just rotate records, deleting those 
>> that are oldest.
> 
> You can't restrict size of the database only
> with MySQL, use disk quotas.

No!  That would just stop mysql right in its
tracks (so to speak...) when it got too large. 
But I want old records sloughed off and the db to
continue running.  (This is for a central syslog
box.)  


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