Those are the files which contain the data in each table in your
MySQL databases. I think the .myd files contain the data, the .myi
files contain indexes, and the .frm files contain schema information.
Douglas Sims
Doug@stripped
On Jun 30, 2006, at 11:47 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the /data/database_name directory I have found a few files I
> don't know
> what they are used for. I have seen that some of them are pretty
> big. I
> don't think it is safe to delete them, but can I do something to
> decrease
> their size at least?
>
> Here are those files and their sizes in MB:
>
> 1 #sql-2a91_cdf.frm
> 397 #sql-2a91_cdf.MYD
> 253 #sql-2a91_cdf.MYI
> 1 #sql-6094_2.frm
> 397 #sql-6094_2.MYD
> 1 #sql-6094_2.MYI
> 2 #sql-6094_2.TMD
>
> Thank you.
>
> Teddy
>
>
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