MySQL partition is full

am3n — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:07:38 +0000

MySQL databases are located on /var/lib/mysql, if you create a partition for /var and and big enough to hold your databases MySQL will stop working because not enough space to put the data. Below is the easy way to fix it:

Assume you have /home partition which is far more bigger than /var, we’ll move to /home/mysql
service mysql stop cd /var/lib mv mysql /home ln -s /home/mysql . chown -R mysql.mysql mysql service mysql start

The lesson in here is: please do research how much your data will grow, or it will be pain in the ass

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Add Swap on Linux

am3n — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:59:32 +0000

From: FelipeCruz

To add swap partition use command

# mkswap /dev/hdb2
# swapon /dev/hdb2
# vi /etc/fstab
# /dev/hdb2   swap   swap   defaults   0 0

With assuming you already create /dev/hdb2 partition before using fdisk and chose swap filesystem.

To add a swap file:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
# mkswap /swapfile
# swapon /swapfile
# vi /etc/fstab
#  /swapfile   swap   swap    defaults        0 0

Check swap status:

# cat /proc/swaps
# free

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MySQL partition is full

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