mysql ibdata1 file size trouble. any help

[gdtechind]

there is one trouble i m facing abt mysql database on my server
the ibdata1 file has grown to 3.3 GB in size
we had lot of data in one database, but recently i deleted that database, but the file size for ibdata1 file is still the same.

any way to reduce it in size. i am sure its size should be around 1 GB now as we have deleted lot of data and tables.

Any ideas ?

thanks

[Linknz]

Have you tried the tools in PHPMYADMIN
from there you can compact and do a heap of database sorting to make sure it's compacted, try to clean the database usin it's functions..

[cyclinder]

you should recreate the tables via mysql dump - currently you can not simply shrink the files