Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:57:57 +0200 From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .snap Message-ID: <469A0BC5.4060709@boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <20070715175850.52d6f45e@localhost> References: <4699C5B8.9000005@boosten.org> <20070715175850.52d6f45e@localhost>
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Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:59:04 +0200 > Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Is it possible to mount a filesystem with it creating a .snap directory? >> >> I mount a different partition for mysql under /var/db/mysql, but since >> there's a .snap directory, mysql thinks there's a .snap database > > :-D > >> (the >> name is actually a bit complexer). > > You can tell mysql where to look for pretty much anything via my.cnf, or > rc.conf settings (i think you want to do the latter). > - the /var/db/mysql is the default, but by no means unchangeable. > > for example, mount your partition in /mnt/dbs , make a > directory /mnt/dbs/mysql and point mysql to this. the .snap will be > in /mnt/dbs . Thanks for the suggestion, Norberto, but that doesn't answer my question: is it possible to mount a partition _without_ it creating a .snap directory? TIA Peter -- http://www.boosten.org
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