Hi Miguel,
Those files are the binary logs that MySQL keeps of its doings. You can find
more information here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/binary-log.html.
Depending on the number of tables and the number of data-altering statements,
these logs may become very big very quickly.
Kind regards,
--
/Martijn
On Sunday 25 September 2005 02:56, Miguel Cardenas wrote:
Hello list
I wanted to know how much space was using the database am working on, but
found some big files I don't know what they do... these files are located
in
/usr/local/mysql/var
and are named 'myhostname-bin.000nn' (nn is 1 to 29 at this moment)... I
don't know that are those files, so I did a 'less' on them and it appears
to be binary data with mixed full insert commands for part of my existing
database.
My question is... why are those files there? are they really needed or can
be removed? they are really big and contain old insert commands that will
not be used never more... can I simple delete all of them?
Thanks for any information!!!
--
/Martijn
--
MySQL General Mailing List
For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
