> From: Claudio Nanni <claudio.nanni@stripped>
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> No, as already explained, it is not possible, Innodb datafiles *never* shrink.
That's been the common wisdom for a long time.
However, this just popped up on my RSS reader. I haven't even looked at it, let alone
tried it.
I'm interested in what the experts think...
"Getting rid of huge ibdata file, no dump required: You have been told (guilty as
charged), that the only way to get rid of the huge InnoDB tablespace file (commonly named
ibdata1), when moving to innodb_file_per_table, is to do a logical dump of your data,
completely erase everything, then import the dump."
http://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/getting-rid-of-huge-ibdata-file-no-dump-required
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