Dan Nelson <dnel...@allantgroup.com> writes: > In the last episode (Jun 02), Jesse F. Hughes said: >> After a recent hard drive kerfluffle and the results of fsck, I'm left >> with a slew of jumbled database files. The file command can tell me the >> file types, like so: >> >> #15901614: MySQL table definition file Version 10 >> #15901615: MySQL MISAM compressed data file Version 1 >> #15901617: MySQL table definition file Version 10 >> #15901618: MySQL MISAM compressed data file Version 1 >> #15901620: MySQL table definition file Version 10 >> #15901621: MySQL MISAM compressed data file Version 1 >> >> These files are, I'm pretty sure, from my mythtv database. I'm >> rebuilding my box and it would be nice if I can keep the mythtv >> database the same as before, but how can I tell which file is which? > > "table definition" files are the .frm files; "MISAM compressed data" files > are .MYI files. Unfortunately, you're missing the .MYD files in that list, > which don't have a header (sometimes 'file' thinks they're dbase format). > > You may be in luck, though. The filenames are the inode numbers of the > original files, and it looks like they're in sequential order, so the tables > were probably created all at once, one after the other. File #15901616 (if > it exists) is probably the .MYD file that corresponds to #15901614 (.frm) > and #15901615 (.MYI). > > The numerical order of the files should match the order the mythtv setup > script creates its tables. If they aren't in order for some reason, then > you can rename the groups of files into "a.frm", "a.MYI", "a.MYD", "b.frm", > "b.MYI", "b.MYD", etc, then run "show create table a" etc to determine the > table layout and match them up to known mythtv tables.
Brilliant! I'll look into it as soon as I can. And I'll be sure to complain if it doesn't work. Thanks. -- "[I want to] stand at the pinnacle of human achievement with no one else in all of history even close, no human being having faced what I have--and survived. Because when all is said and done, make no mistake, the simple truth is, I am better." --James S. Harris -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
