On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:00:14AM -0600, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote:
> OK. I tracked the problem to being out of disk space in the var partition.
> The default source installation plaved the data in the /var/db directory.
> The var partition is not that large by default, and therefore I am now out
> of space.
> I would like to move the data to a /usr/local/mysql/data directory.
> What is the proper process to do this by?
> Is moving the data to that directory and changing the datadir location in
> safe_mysqld sufficient?
That might work; dunno. Or you could:
shell_ cd /var
shell_ rmdir db
shell_ ln -s /usr/local/mysql/data ./db
... I think. Then you wouldn't have to fiddle with mysql defaults at
all. Of course, get your data out of /var/db before you rmdir /var/db.
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