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.

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