From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 14:32:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9111B16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:32:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from web60305.mail.yahoo.com (web60305.mail.yahoo.com [216.109.118.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59C8E43D1D for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:32:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from washville2003@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20031217223250.115.qmail@web60305.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.201.214.1] by web60305.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:32:50 PST Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:32:50 -0800 (PST) From: samy lancher To: "Scott I. Remick" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase space for /var/db/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:32:53 -0000 Hello, thanks for the response. you are right, for 4.5 freebsd there is no reference of DB_DIR in mysql-server.sh. I looked for my.cnf in /etc and /usr/local/etc, but i did not find it in those folders. i feel that this file does not exist in my system. any suggestions? thanks, "Scott I. Remick" wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:04:58 -0800, samy lancher wrote: > I have a 4.5 FreeBSD server with mysql database. only 250MB was allocated > to /var/db. Our database is increasing so fast that now i need to expand > the memory for /var/db. I guess one way to do is to install a new hard > drive and then mount it to /var/db. But i would like to know if there is > any other way to solve that problem. Is making a soft link a good idea. i > have 70GB in /usr/ so i would like to map /var/db/ to some location in > /usr/. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions. First time I had to do this I did the link suggestion that other people have posted. But you have another cleaner option w/ MySQL. There is a my.cnf file where you can set a DATADIR variable (I think that's what it's called) to set the path for the database files. Then you can point that to /usr/mysql or whatever. Just read up on my.cnf and how it's used for more info. It either goes in /etc or /usr/local/etc I think. The reason I'm vague is that I don't do it that way myself. I use the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts (which I don't think were used in 4.5?) so I have an option right within the mysql-server.sh script there for setting the datadir (DB_DIR). _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard