I noticed that one of my servers was running out of disk space, due to heavy MySQL usage.
I stopped everything using the database, freed up some space and restarted mysqld.
Now, I checked my table with CHECK TABLE table and it gave me this:
+-------------------+-------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| Table | Op | Msg_type | Msg_text |
+-------------------+-------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| db.table | check | warning | Table is marked as crashed and last repair failed |
| db.table | check | warning | 1 client is using or hasn't closed the table properly |
| db.table | check | warning | Size of indexfile is: 8656211968 Should be: 1024 |
| db.table | check | error | Size of datafile is: 3068555264 Should be: 3068558490 |
| db.table | check | error | Corrupt |
+-------------------+-------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------+
How can I fix that? Simply running "REPAIR TABLE" does not work, I tried that and it never finished (killed it after 18 hours).
How can I save the data?
Best Answer
Your table(s) have crashed. This happens with non-transactional databases such as MyISAM. Consider a move to InnoDB if you don't need fulltext search.
Anways - you have to repair it, there is no way around. Try the following in a shell to repair all your tables: