On Thursday 13 September 2001 15:36, Frank Fisher wrote:
> Ian Barwick wrote:
> > In Windows you can probably do something involving the mouse and some
> > icon-thingies, or maybe a simple DIR at the command line.
>
> Right-click on the MySQL database folder, selecting "Properties".
>
> Under DOS, substitute your Unix command with DIR and look at the total
> at the end of the list, and use backslashes instead of forward slashes.
And leaving out the command line switches. AFAIK the DOS DIR only shows
totals in bytes (at least in NT4).
> Of course, you could do the icon-thingy with KDE, Gnome, etc.
Yup, assuming the KDE, Gnome etc. user can read the database directory. Which
means either the user is running an X-session as root (generally Not A Good
Thing) or the directory rights have been changed to something other than a
healthily paranoid 700.
Ian Barwick
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