I built a laptop this weekend with mysql server version 5.0.37-log. The laptop is running Fedora 7. Last night I was able to create a database directory -- sym linking from /var/lib/mysql to a larger disk, /usr/local/data. I was able to create tables and loaded 10 million rows of data into three tables. This morning I start up the laptop and bring up the mysql client to load previous days data and ..... show databases doesn't show my database :-(. The directory still exists, sym link is in place, tables are still there, the server is unable to see them. The file permissions are rwxrwx... for the actual directory (owner is mysql, grp is mysql) , the user mysql can see the entire path to the directory.
any insight into this problem would be greatly appreciated. tcp tanstaafl
