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Posted by Dave_77, 10-07-2008, 06:06 PM Hi, Our dedicated server (Fedora 7/Apache2/mySQL) has a limitation of running up to 8 different databases. We thought this was plenty, but now we're planning a new one, and when we logged on to our phpMyAdmin, we noticed that we already have eight databases. However, we're pretty sure some of these were never used, and just came with our server, but I'd just like to check is it safe to drop them: "horde" - from google, we gather that this is a mySQL database for webmail. we checked data files in /var/lib/mysql, none of them were changed since the day we got the server, and for webmail, we currently use internet webmail sites, we don't seem to be using horde for anything? "phpmyadmin_H6peeRLGehBr" - we assumed that this is some service database for phpmyadmin module, and that we can't run phpmyadmin without it. However, we also checked its data files in /var/lib/mysql, and again, no files were ever changed since the day we got the server. Do you think it would be safe to drop these two databases without affecting anything in the system? Thanks
Posted by dvashishtha, 10-07-2008, 08:31 PM AS you wrote that horde database is empty, most likely you have configured horde to store user information and preference in files instead of mysql database.However,I would suggest you to once check this in configuration file of horde before deleting this database.
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