on 12/19/2002 5:00 PM, Paul Nolan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I`ve got myself into a bit of a mess by allowing my raq3's 200mb var partition > to fill up. This means I can no longer login to my server as root, because a > log file of my login cannot be created. Naturally only root can delete or > move any files in /var to fix this problem :o Anyway, this caused my MySQL > database which was also in /var have problems, and before realising that disk > space was the cause, I tried to repair the database using the repair command. > Now I have a corrupt database that I cannot export due to "Error: Cannot open > database.MYD", and I cannot copy the actual data files on the server due to > lack of permissions. Is there anyway I can get around this? If I delete the > database I should have enough room to login as root again, but I`d really > rather have a copy of the database before doing this.
Just a offshot guess here, can you ftp in and delete a file? ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 http://www.newgeo.com Fax: 313.557.5052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novato, CA U.S.A. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
