Decreasing the Size of the InnoDB Tablespace

Decreasing the Size of the InnoDB Tablespace

Currently, you cannot remove a data file from the tablespace. To decrease the size of your tablespace, use this procedure:

1. Use mysqldump to dump all your InnoDB tables.

2. Stop the server.

3. Remove all the existing tablespace files, including the ibdata and ib_log files. If you want to keep a backup copy of the information, then copy all the ib* files to another location before the removing the files in your MySQL installation.

4. Remove any .frm files for InnoDB tables.

5. Configure a new tablespace.

6. Restart the server.

7. Import the dump files.