From: Sasha Pachev
Date: April 22 1999 3:45pm
Subject: Re: errno 28
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Michael Farr wrote:
> 
> I am starting a new database and I cant seem to do some things, what do
> these errors mean
> 
> create database mike;
> Can't create database 'mike'. (errno: 28)
> 
> use test;
> create table example (id INTEGER);
> ERROR 3: Error writing file './test/example.frm' (Errcode: 28)

Check data directory permissions. su to the user MySQL
runs as and try to create a dummy file/directory in the
mysql data directory.



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