On 06/23/2011 03:47 PM, Nux Ro wrote:
Larry Linder writes:

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

Check /var/log/mysql.log (or similar). You shouldn't need to do symlinks and
the like; instead edit /etc/my.cnf and change datadir to point to a new
directory then restart. Make sure the new $datadir is chown mysql:mysql.

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Nux!
www.nux.ro

If you are under selinux please chcon -R -t mysqld_db_t  on the new dir.

Pat

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