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Are MySQL databases always stored in /var on CentOS?

Specifically - If a new CentOS/cPanel server that needs to support MySQL, doesn't have that partition, but only has these, does that mean MySQL data is somehow being stored in a temporary dump somewhere?

/dev/sda3              /
tmpfs                  /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              /boot
/usr/tmpDSK            /tmp
Peter Mortensen
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inac
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In your case /var is stored on /dev/sda3 as a subdirectory of /.

The default datadir for MySQL is /var/lib/mysql and as long as you do not change the configuration, the database files are stored in this directory.

joschi
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In *nix, if a directory is not a separate mount then it is part of its parent mount. In this case, /var is considered part of /.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
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