Re: [cobalt-users] /var dir

[Jay Summers <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Is there anyway to move some disk space from /home dir to /var?

You could copy it over to /home and symlink it in /var.

> I have mysql running on a cobalt RAQ4 system. The mysql datadir turned
> out to be /var/lib/mysql. /var only has 194 MB. As my databases are
> growing and I'm running out of space on /var dir.

How did you install it? From source or as a .pkg?

> I'm thiking I need to change the datadir variable to somewhere on the
> /home dir, where I have >25GB free. How can I achieve this? Or is this
> the right approach? please be detailed as I'm new to this.

Personally, I install MySQL from source. When I do the ./configure, I put it
on /home. eg.

./configure --prefix=/home/mysql

hth,
j
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