Re: Importing a database as a data file directory

2014-10-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.10.2014 um 22:39 schrieb Jan Steinman: I've had good experiences moving MyISAM files that way, but bad experience moving INNODB files. I suspect the latter are more aggressively cached simply no, no and no again independent of "innodb_file_per_table = 1" there is *always* a global tabl

Re: Importing a database as a data file directory

2014-10-05 Thread Tim Johnson
* Reindl Harald [141005 13:12]: > > Am 05.10.2014 um 21:29 schrieb Tim Johnson: > >I have a dual-boot OS X/Ubuntu 12.04 arrangement on a mac mini. The > >ubuntu system has failed and I am unable to boot it. > > > >I have one database on the ubuntu partition that was not backed up. > > > >I am abl

Re: Importing a database as a data file directory

2014-10-05 Thread Tim Johnson
* Jan Steinman [141005 13:12]: > > So, this is a "Help me before I hurt myself" sort of question: Are > > there any caveats and gotchas to consider? > Do you know if the database was shut down properly? Or did Ubunto > crash and die and your partition become unbootable while the > database was i

Re: Importing a database as a data file directory

2014-10-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.10.2014 um 21:29 schrieb Tim Johnson: I have a dual-boot OS X/Ubuntu 12.04 arrangement on a mac mini. The ubuntu system has failed and I am unable to boot it. I have one database on the ubuntu partition that was not backed up. I am able to mount the ubuntu partion with fuse-ext2 from Mac

Re: Importing a database as a data file directory

2014-10-05 Thread Jan Steinman
> So, this is a "Help me before I hurt myself" sort of question: Are > there any caveats and gotchas to consider? Do you know if the database was shut down properly? Or did Ubunto crash and die and your partition become unbootable while the database was in active use? Either way, you need to mak

Importing a database as a data file directory

2014-10-05 Thread Tim Johnson
I have a dual-boot OS X/Ubuntu 12.04 arrangement on a mac mini. The ubuntu system has failed and I am unable to boot it. I have one database on the ubuntu partition that was not backed up. I am able to mount the ubuntu partion with fuse-ext2 from Mac OS X, thus I can read and copy the mysql dat