[mythtv-users] Moving my MythDB

[marcus hall]

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 12:22:06PM -0600, Jerome Yuzyk via mythtv-users wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 6:38:06 A.M. MDT Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> > You can for instance put /var/lib/mysql on its own volume. Thus it
> > cannot flood the system. Also you can mount volumes that do not need
> > writing as read-only.
> 
> This is what I'm wanting to know, not to another volume, but not in /var/lib, 
> and thought some MythTV Merlin had done it already before I put it on my To 
> Research list. Something I'd like to know for other MySQL databases too.

You can also make /var/lib/mysql be a symlink to a directory anywhere you
would like in the filesystem.  (If you have other databases, they would be
moved as well as mythtv.)

marcus hall