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Partitioning and freeing disk space

I am running MySql innodb with innodb_file_per_table. As a daily script, I would like to create a new partition for a set of tables, as well as delete yesterday's partitions. What command would need ...
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How do I shrink the innodb file ibdata1 without dumping all databases?

InnoDB stores all tables in one big file ibdata1. After dropping a big table, the file is keeping its size no matter how big the table was. How can I shrink that file without having to dump and ...
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How to Recover an InnoDB table whose files were moved around

So I have a test db server that was setup on a replication stream. Over the name an optimize came through that quickly filled up the space on the slaves datadir. Mysql dutifully was just waiting for ...