Re: [cobalt-users] MYSQL data location

[Steven Werby <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Frank Böttcher wrote:

> Finaly I got a Cobalt RaQ3. I installed PHP and MySQL via telnet from
> ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/experimental/
> All works fine. I have some really big tables >50 MBon another server. I
> want to only copy the files located in the data - dir from one server to the
> other. But I don't find the data dir on the new cobalt machine.

Frank, I think that Cobalt's RPMs install the MySQL data directory in
/var.  The easiest way to find it though is to execute this command:


mysqladmin variable -u root -pYOURMYSQLROOTPASSWORDHERE

"datadir" will be one of the variables listed.

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Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}