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Aha
Asked: 2011-11-30 22:11:00 +0800 CST

MySQL-server-5.5.18 - Installation issues / doubts

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1 ) How to relocate the data dir while installing the MySQL-server-5.5.18-1.linux2.6.i386.rpm.

rpm -ivh MySQL-server-5.5.18-1.linux2.6.i386.rpm
mysql5.5

1 Answers

  1. If a my.cnf is present when MySQL is installed, it will override any default settings with the values specified there. So you can simply create your /etc/my.cnf with the following content:

    [mysqld]
datadir=/my/specified/datadir
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