Re: changing database location

2003-01-03 Thread rich allen
shutdown mysql, move all the files in your current data directory to the new location in your my.cnf file (ie. unix: /etc/my.cnf) [mysqld] datadir=/my --- all data files are in /my - hcir On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 07:56 AM, aman raheja wrote: Hi All Right now I have all my MySQL dat

Re: Changing Database Location ?

2001-08-31 Thread David Turner
This is one thing I really can't stand about mysql. We should have the option when creating databases and tables of specifying where the database is located and the datafile and indexfile. Dave On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 07:03:40PM +0200, Simon J Mudd wrote: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Peter Moscatt wr

Re: Changing Database Location ?

2001-08-31 Thread Simon J Mudd
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Peter Moscatt wrote: > Can you change the location of a MySQL database ? The default is > '/var/lib/mysql'. The easy way I've always used is to change the name of the /var/lib/mysql directory and make a symbolic link to another directory. You need to reset up the mysql dat