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.

John Coder



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