Useful commands

Show status

show table status;

Purging MySQL Binlog files

To show binary logs

mysql> SHOW BINARY LOGS;

To Purge binary logs manually until some point

mysql> PURGE BINARY LOGS TO 'binlog.000776';

To show binary logs

mysql> SET GLOBAL binlog_expire_logs_seconds = 259200;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> SET PERSIST binlog_expire_logs_seconds = 259200;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1322041/how-to-solve-increasing-size-of-mysql-binlog-files-problem

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/replication-options-binary-log.html