# delete table space

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**Category:** Percona Server for MySQL 5.6\
**Created:** [September 26, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/delete-table-space/5882 "2017-09-26T13:51:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![modern\_zoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@modern\_zoro](https://forums.percona.com/u/modern_zoro)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/delete-table-space/5882/1 "2017-09-26T13:51:47Z")

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Hi All,  
Kindly advice for the below issue,

i have table it’s size more than 1TB and i try to drop it but it didn’t free space in file system.  
what i should do if i need to freeup this table space ??

i have Percona-Server-5.6.21-70.1-r698-el6-x86\_64

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**Author:** ![zarere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ac8455/32.png) [@zarere](https://forums.percona.com/u/zarere)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/delete-table-space/5882/2 "2018-07-22T23:43:30Z")

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If the innodb\_file\_per\_table is off that is normal please see.

[url][https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/08/21/the-mysql-ibdata1-disk-space-issue-and-big-tables-part-1/[/url]](https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/08/21/the-mysql-ibdata1-disk-space-issue-and-big-tables-part-1/%5B/url%5D)

[url][https://www.percona.com/blog/2013/09/25/how-to-reclaim-space-in-innodb-when-innodb\_file\_per\_table-is-on/[/url]](https://www.percona.com/blog/2013/09/25/how-to-reclaim-space-in-innodb-when-innodb_file_per_table-is-on/%5B/url%5D)