From: Steve Ruby Date: August 2 1999 10:49pm Subject: isamchk -r without shutdown List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/9152 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Although crude it is the following sequence going to hurt any data mysqladmin flush-tables cp mydata/dbname /tmp isamchk -r /tmp/dbname/*.ism mysqladmin flush-tables this table is not likely to have many updates (unless i make them) if the files have not been modified since I copied them out can I replace the files in the data directory with the repaired ones? basicaly I want to know if I can repair an isam table without shutting down the db server? under any circumstances where the db in question will only be read from while the repair is in progress. Thanks Steve