Re: Information Needing to be Added Regarding non-Standard Data Path

[Mike Hillyer]

I actually went into the documentation to add your request, but noted this was already there:

An option file can be created and modified with any text editor, such as the Notepad program. For example, if MySQL is installed at E:\mysql and the data directory is located at D:\MySQLdata, you can create the option file and set up a [mysqld] section to specify values for the basedir and datadir parameters:

[mysqld]
# set basedir to your installation path
basedir=E:/mysql
# set datadir to the location of your data directory
datadir=D:/MySQLdata

It does not actually mention moving the contents of the data directory, so I am adding a paragraph advising the reader to move the data directory before restarting the server.

Thanks for the feedback.

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