On one of my Typo3 installations I found an unusually large InnoDB file (Typo3's indexed_search being the culprit).
dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/adding-and-removing.html is a bit more complex. Instead of mysqldump (step 1 per documentation) I ran this SQL statement, following Nickolay Pelov's suggestion.
Here are the SQL statements I used to create the scripts to shrink this file:
use information_schema;
Note to self: if you want to install Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04) on a Asus A8V-MX motherboard and you have SATA drives only, they will not be recognized unless you load the kernel with these options:
irqpoll noapic pci=nomsi
These options should be added to your grub boot configuration as well.
Here are my notes from migrating an OSCommerce installation to a Drupal ubercart system.
Firstly dump all the products with their names and ids from the OScommerce database. Then import this data with the node import module. I've imported the id field into the description because at this point in time I couldn't figure where the sku was stored.