Hello,
Marten, in my experience, these are most often temporary files leftover
from an incomplete operation.
They might be from a long-running query that was canceled, or from a
table repair operation that errored out or was interrupted.
In my experience it is safe to delete them, provided you take care to
not delete one that is in use (i.e. mysql is actively writing to it).
The modification dates should let you watch for that.
thanks. Mysql 5 seems a bit buggy then, because I have never seen this
behavior in mysql 4.1. And from the logs I couldn't see that mysql
crashed or restartet. In fact, our mysql 5 server is mostly idling
around (in contrary to our mysql 4.1 servers).
Kind regards
Marten
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