I need to move the MySQL folder to another drive. My thought was to do the following:
1) service mysql stop 2) mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/foo/mysql 3) ln -s /var/lib/foo/mysql /var/lib 4) service mysql start This didn't work as mysql never started up. The command just stayed there on the screen. So, I stopped it and moved things back: 1) rm /var/lib/mysql 2) mv /var/lib/foo/mysql /var/lib 3) service mysql start Came up like a charm. Why didn't the softlink work? I am very sure I have had this work in the past. Using Ubuntu 10.04 and MySQL 5.1.41-3ubuntu12 Regards, - Robert -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
