Hello. Yes. Maybe a mystery that will remain unsolved for some time; however, hopefully will get solved.
I deleted all the related files, dropped the database, and recreated it again freshly from a backup. It was needed to try out some migration of data across tables, and hence the data was not 'that' critical. I shudder at the thought of this happening on the live server... I would have ended up having a rocket lighted behind me... ;o) On another note, what gets written into the ibdata1 file, wrt a database/table? Can't I write/update something into it to rectify any dangling references it has to any db/table? Regards, Rithish. -----Original Message----- From: Heikki Tuuri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 1:54 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: error 1016 : cant open ibd file even though it exists Rithish, ----- Original Message ----- From: ""Rithish Saralaya"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 7:06 AM Subject: RE: error 1016 : cant open ibd file even though it exists > Heikki. > > I found the ibdata1 and ib_log files located in only '/var/lib/mysql' > which > is defined as the mysql home folder. > > The last time my.cnf was editied was on the 9th of Dec, and the database > was > created somewhere in the month of January. So the database would have been > created with the same configurations. > > Thankfully, I have a dump of the original database. Looks like I have to > restore all of the 35 GB of data again. then this remains a mystery. InnoDB never deletes ibdata files or ib_logfiles by itself. > Regards, > Rithish. Best regards, Heikki Oracle Corp./Innobase Oy InnoDB - transactions, row level locking, and foreign keys for MySQL InnoDB Hot Backup - a hot backup tool for InnoDB which also backs up MyISAM tables http://www.innodb.com/order.php -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
