On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 20:38, tmb wrote: > HELP ! I'm a newbie to both Linux & mySQL. > > I have a simple mySQL sample data base running on a > Red Hat 7.3 machine. > > It was already setup when I got it. > > Now I want to find the data base files that mySQL > creates so I can back them up... and for my education. > > I can't seem to get Linux to search the entire hard > disk... and I'm really not sure of the data base file > names... it comes up in a demo web page. > > 1 - Where does mySQL normally store it's data base > files? > > 2 - Can you change the default directory for a data > base? > > 3 - How do you get Linux to search the entire disk for > a file? > > Thanks for any help... > > tmb look in /var/lib/mysql that's where they are placed usually by rpm. you have to be root to to this I think though.
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