Hi,
I have Linux machine (Debian) that runs several databases.
when I doing "du -h /var/lib/mysql" I see that some of my database direcories have big logs files (log.MYD).
How can I flush/clear/purge such logs?
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by: ravenplPosted on 2008-01-24 at 11:56:01ID: 20736676
The log.MYD file is not mysql's log, but application's that uses it.
if the file is called /var/lib/mysql/somename/lo
it means that there is table called "log" in database "somename".
Identify application that uses somename database.
If You still want to get rid of all logs, simply login into mysql shell and execute
use somename
delete from log;