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Dec 04, 2016

/var/lib/mysql/ibdata1 - what is it and why it takes so much space?

Hello, In logs I found error message - System volume 'root' usage is 95%. i checked what takes most of available root space and found that "/var/lib/mysql/ibdata1" takes almost 3GB. what is it? ...

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mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Dec 05, 2016

If you didn't install any app then you would have MySQL installed and wouldn't have a MySQL database.

przlwo
Aspirant
Dec 05, 2016
Thank you mdgm for reply but could you explain me a bit more what option do I have to recover at least some space?

Excuse me but I don't have experience in this area :)
- Sandshark
  Sensei
  Dec 06, 2016
  Mysql is the database program and ibdata1 is the primary storage location. It can be used by many applications, and one of yours has a lot of data. What apps are you running? I believe that some apps have the ability to move their databases off the system partition.
  - przlwo
    Aspirant
    Dec 06, 2016
    Hi Sandshark,
    
    I took support of this server from another company.
    
    When I'm opening "Apps" tab, I can see only "No installed applications". Maybe some time ago there was something installed but currently I do not see any application.
    
    Is there any other place that I should check for apps installed? If not can I remove ibdata1? Is it possible that some system information are being kept there?