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From: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:36:52 +0100
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Cc: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: increasing mount size
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On 27 Oct 2005, at 23:22, David Kirchner wrote:

> On 10/27/05, eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> wrote:
>
>> oops! typo... sorry... output:
>> nathaniel# du -s /var/*
>> 2       /var/account
>> 6       /var/at
>> 8       /var/backups
>> 4       /var/crash
>> 4       /var/cron
>> 71010   /var/db
>>
>
> This is probably because the port uses /var/db/mysql as the database
> directory (not sure why since /var is pretty tiny). An easy "fix" is:
>
> mysqladmin shutdown
> mkdir /usr/local
> mv /var/db/mysql /usr/local/
> ln -s /usr/local/mysql /var/db/mysql
>
> then start mysqld however it is you do that (mysql-server.sh start  
> maybe?)

Ah, thats much better now. Thank you.