Jennifer Slis wrote: > > I am extremely new to mySQL (and the Linux environment all together). I have > been building/maintaining a mySQL/PHP site. Today, the site began giving me > errno 145 (cannot open file) errors. I found that meant I had at least one > corrupt table, so I went into mySQL, found I had two corrupt tables and ran > REPAIR TABLE. That fixed one of the tables, but the other one kept giving > the error msg text as "69 when writing to datafile" as a result of REPAIR > TABLE. So after much searching, I found a more extensive repair mechanism in > myisamchk. However, everything I have found assumes I have this utility > running. I am running mySQL 3.23.38, but when I type "myisamchk" my server > claims "command not found". So (a) is there a different way to repair my > table? (without having to wipe all data and rebuild the table -- it has a > ton of records) or (b) how do I get this myisamchk utility running on my > server so the command means something?? Also, I tried mysqld --myism-recover > but it printed out a few lines, then said "ready for connections" and just > sat there. I left it alone for a while thinking maybe it was just taking > forever, but it never finished until I hit Ctrl C. ANY help would be much > appreciated!!! > > Jenn > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________
Jennifer: What are the chances you're out of disk space? df The above command will tell you if you've used up all your disk space on your db partition. Van -- ================================================================= Linux rocks!!! http://www.dedserius.com/ ================================================================= --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php