RE: Re: How to share databases on dual-boot machines?

2005-12-29 Thread Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)
Sent: Friday, 30 December 2005 2:30 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: How to share databases on dual-boot machines? Thanks for the advice David. I opted for your method 2 and symlinked to my database files which now reside on a FAT32 partition. Unfortunately, I've hit a slight issue whic

Re: How to share databases on dual-boot machines?

2005-12-29 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi James, all! James Brown wrote: Thanks for the advice David. I opted for your method 2 and symlinked to my database files which now reside on a FAT32 partition. Unfortunately, I've hit a slight issue which I'd like to run past you, but I do think this could turn out to be a FAT32 problem r

Re: How to share databases on dual-boot machines?

2005-12-29 Thread James Brown
Thanks for the advice David. I opted for your method 2 and symlinked to my database files which now reside on a FAT32 partition. Unfortunately, I've hit a slight issue which I'd like to run past you, but I do think this could turn out to be a FAT32 problem rather than a MySQL one. Basically,

RE: How to share databases on dual-boot machines?

2005-12-28 Thread Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)
Hi James, There are a couple of options (from the Linux side of things) : 1) set the datadir either in the start options of safe_mysqld (or mysqld_safe I can never remember) or set it in the options file (my.cnf or a .my.cnf in your home directory) see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/optio