deleting files related to mysql

2003-11-20 Thread M.D. DeWar
Hello, in my /var/db/mysql there is a whole lot of files that have spiderman-bin.001 all the way to 038 Can I safely delete these files ? I also have these 25088 Sep 12 23:41 ib_arch_log_00 5242880 Nov 19 16:18 ib_logfile0 5242880 Sep 12 23:41 ib_logfile1 10485760 Nov 19 16:16

Re: deleting files related to mysql

2003-11-20 Thread Daniel Kiss
These are the InnoDB data and log files. They are there because probably you have the InnoDB feature switched on. You can delete them (all of them) safely, if you do not use InnoDB tables, but if you don't swicth off the InnoDB feature (in my.cnf for example), the system will recreate them

Re: deleting files related to mysql

2003-11-20 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
M.D. DeWar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, in my /var/db/mysql there is a whole lot of files that have spiderman-bin.001 all the way to 038 Can I safely delete these files ? These are binary log files. If you don't need them, you can delete them and start server without --log-bin option.