RE: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrei Popescu [mailto:andreimpopescu@gmail.com]
> Sent: 11 January 2007 16:15
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?
>
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:02:02 -0500
> hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:20:57PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > >Ln -s /var/lib/mysql /mnt/hdx/mysql
> > > >
> Not really. If you make a link (soft or hard) you get one file/dir with
> two names and/or locations. Any changes made through the link will be in
> fact done to the file/dir itself. If you change one copy of a file/dir
> the other copy will not change and the space occupied is (almost)
> double.
You cannot hard link between filesystems.
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