shutdown the mysqld, move the data direectory,
and set up a symbolic link.
Rahadul Kabir wrote:
>Hi,
>I have MySQL3.23.47 running on a Cobalt RaQ4 System. The mysql
>installed datadir turned out to be /var/lib/mysql. /var directory has
>it's own partition (/dev/hda3) and total space available i
You could look into parted to resize partitions or copy the db to the
desired directory and restart the damon with safe_mysqld
--data-dir=/where/u/moved/db/to. I believe you'll also need to copy
over the mysql database to the new location as well or mysql will fail
to start. first, note your per