On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Larry Linder wrote:

> I have a need to move an installation of mysql from /var/lib/mysql to another
> disk.  /var has limited size.
> I installed a new 1 T disk on new system.
> used "yum" to install mysql-server mysql it installs and runs
> from /var/lib/mysql
> /etc/init.d/mysqld  stop
> I followed the procedure in RH to move the data files etc.
> Once you change the my.cnf to new location
>
> /etc/init.d/mysqld start
> long delay
> (failed)
> Not much of an error message.
>

> The last time I use ln -s to link new disk to /var/lib/mysql.   When system
> was rebuilt this went away and I need a reliable way to move mysql to new
> disk.
>
> Thank You
> Larry Linder
>

Larry,

Does this system have Selinux enabled?  If so does selinux like how you 
did the move.  I assume you mounted the new disk on /var/lib/mysql .

There is a mysql log file in /var/log/mysql.log is there any entries 
from when you did the /etc/init.d/mysqld start .

-connie sieh