On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Prabhpal S. Mavi <prabhpal at digital-infotech.net> wrote: > > > Dear All Greetings, > > i am seeking help from guys with mysql knowledge. i can see lot of these > files in mysql directory. And they are eventually filling up the space on > the server. what these files are? some exists with very old time stamps. > such as February 2012. can these be deleted? > > This Number Starts From -----------------------mysql-bin.000001 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 159M Apr 25 12:24 mysql-bin.000197 > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 5M Apr 26 00:00 mysql-bin.000198 > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 8.1M Apr 27 00:00 mysql-bin.000200 > > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 125M MAY 27 20:29 mysql-bin.000230 > The first hit here has a very detailed description of that: https://www.google.com.br/search?q=mysql-bin In case your results are different: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/what-is-mysql-binary-log/ -- Giovanni