Thanks Ole,
I checked and with the standard install my database is
indeed in /var. I'm playing with myisamchk to see if
there's a way to restore.
I asked the IT department to back this server up for
years, but they've ignored me. This is the only
machine I have permissions, otherwise I'd have just
backed it up myself. I didn't backup to itself just
cause the harddrive isn't terribly large.
I'll keep digging through MySQL and see if I can
overcome the odds and get the DB back up. If I'm
successful, I'll post what I did.
Thanks again,
John
--- Ole Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John -
> If your mysql database is located on /var and
> /var filled up, you're
> hosed. (If there's a database engine anywhere that
> can deal gracefully
> with an inability to write to its backing filestore
> during normal
> operations, it's definitely not MySQL.)
>
> Your best hope is probably to restore /var from
> a backup made before
> the partition choked.
>
>
> Sorry,
> Ole
>
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