How do I free up deleted data to the filesystem in MySQL

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Published on 2010-03-26T20:09:27Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 20:13 UTC
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I have deleted several GB of MySQL data, but it has not been returned to the filesystem. My disks are getting full so how do I do that? All the data is in the ibdata1 file since it's InnoDB.

I have tried mysqloptimize -A -o but it did not help.

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