Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:25:20 -0500 From: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase space for /var/db/ Message-ID: <pan.2003.12.17.21.25.20.51664@sremick.net> References: <20031217160458.86196.qmail@web60307.mail.yahoo.com>
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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).
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