If your MySQL binary log files are a “Growing” problem… there are a few simple steps you can use to curtail their growth and save your disk space from these huge files.
They probably look like:
mysql-bin.000001
mysql-bin.000002
mysql-bin.000003
mysql-bin.000004
mysql-bin.000005
…
And around 1 gig in size each.
These files are generated when you have log-bin=mysql-bin or other log-bin= line in your /etc/my.cnf configuration file.
There are two ways to fix this problem:
The first is to stop the MySQL server from creating these binary files. The only reason you …

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