I have a need to move an installation of mysql from /var/lib/mysql to another disk. /var has limited size. I installed a new 1 T disk on new system. used "yum" to install mysql-server mysql it installs and runs from /var/lib/mysql /etc/init.d/mysqld stop I followed the procedure in RH to move the data files etc. Once you change the my.cnf to new location
/etc/init.d/mysqld start long delay (failed) Not much of an error message. The last time I use ln -s to link new disk to /var/lib/mysql. When system was rebuilt this went away and I need a reliable way to move mysql to new disk. Thank You Larry Linder
