[CentOS] mysql-bin files - filling up the space.

[Giovanni Tirloni]

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/

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Giovanni