>Description: I think that when I installed mysql, I ran out of room on the /var file system
>How-To-Repeat: bash-2.05$ /usr/sbin/mysqld --datadir=/home/mysql InnoDB: Error: data file ./ibdata1 is of different size InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file! InnoDB: Could not open data files 020630 1:55:08 Can't init databases bash-2.05$ ls /home/mysql angel.err ibdata1 mysql mysql.sock test bash-2.05$ ls /home/mysql_safe --datadir=/home/mysql ls: unrecognized option `--datadir=/home/mysql' Try `ls --help' for more information. bash-2.05$ /usr/bin/mysql_safe --datadir=/home/mysql bash: /usr/bin/mysql_safe: No such file or directory bash-2.05$ /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/home/mysql Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /home/mysql 020630 01:56:20 mysqld ended bash-2.05$ >Fix: The installation RPM should test that the filesystems have enough free space before beginning. Is there a switch to the RPM to force placement of the database on a different file system? >Submitter-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Originator: MySQL server >Organization: >MySQL support: none >Synopsis: mysqld won't start after installation >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Category: mysql >Class: change-request >Release: mysql-4.0.1-alpha (Official MySQL RPM) >Environment: Linux angel 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:21:28 EDT 2001 i586 unknown bash-2.05$ df -hl Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 2.8G 1.6G 1.0G 60% / /dev/hda1 11M 2.7M 8.1M 25% /boot none 19M 0 18M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda3 95M 70M 20M 78% /var /dev/hdb1 18G 13G 5.4G 70% /home /dev/cdrom 595M 596M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom bash-2.05$ rpm -q redhat-release redhat-release-7.2-1 System: Linux angel 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:21:28 EDT 2001 i586 unknown Architecture: i586 Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98) Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mpentium' CXX='gcc' CXXFLAGS='-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -mpentium' LDFLAGS='' LIBC: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 16 2001 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.4.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5716491 Sep 4 2001 /lib/libc-2.2.4.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27304836 Sep 4 2001 /usr/lib/libc.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Sep 4 2001 /usr/lib/libc.so Configure command: ./configure --disable-shared --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static --with-client-ldflags=-all-static --without-berkeley-db --with-innodb --enable-assembler --with-mysqld-user=mysql --with-unix-socket-path=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --prefix=/ --with-extra-charsets=complex --exec-prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql --infodir=/usr/info --includedir=/usr/include --mandir=/usr/man --with-embedded-server --enable-thread-safe-client '--with-comment=Official MySQL RPM' --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php