From: Dan Nelson
Date: May 23 2004 7:05am
Subject: Re: Links to myisam database files
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In the last episode (May 22), Bruce Ferrell said:
> I'm using 3.23.49a-max-log and as a temporary fix for a disk space
> problem, I shut mysql down,, moved some database files to different
> partitions on the system and symlinked them back into the datadir.
> 
> Everything seems to work ok... So far... Mysql came up with no
> errors, selects and inserts seem ok, again, no errors in the logs.
> 
> I know it's an "odd" way to run a box, but I'm just wondering if
> there is anything I may have missed doing this.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Symbolic_links.html

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	Dan Nelson
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