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Reducing the MySQL 5.1.30 disk footprint

The current size of a MySQL 5.1.30 installation is around 420M.

$ du -sh .
426M	.

A further breakdown.

$ du -sh *
213M	bin
20K	COPYING
9.8M	docs
8.0K	EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT
436K	include
12K	INSTALL-BINARY
121M	lib
504K	man
4.0K	my.cnf
77M	mysql-test
4.0K	README
20K	scripts
2.3M	share
2.9M	sql-bench
100K	support-files

A means to reduce the footprint by 25% is to delete some unused stuff.

$ rm -rf docs/ mysql-test/ sql-bench/
$ du -sh .
337M	.

It’s no big deal, however it certainly does cut down on verbose output in the backup logs removing the mysql-test directory and files.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 at 11:58 am and is filed under Databases, General, Linux, MySQL, Professional. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

3 Responses to “Reducing the MySQL 5.1.30 disk footprint”

  1. Morgan Tocker says:
    February 11, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    Nobody reads the docs anyway ;)

  2. Jon Stephens says:
    February 12, 2009 at 7:46 am

    Does this mean I can get paid to drink beer and go fishing instead? :)

  3. Mark R says:
    February 12, 2009 at 12:04 pm

    Why do you actually care?

    Anyone running MySQL in production is likely to have several gigs of data anyway, so 300M of mysql install files is insignificant.

    Mark

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