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 is 194MB. As My
>
>databases are growing and I'm out of space now on the /var directory.
>
>I am thinking I need to change the datadir variable to somewhere on the
>/home directory, where I have > 25GB free. How can I achieve this? Or
>is this the right approach? Please provide some solution as details as
>possible, as I'm new into this stuff.
>Thanks so much.
>
>Rahad
>
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