On 2006-03-08, im2kul2@gmail.com <im2kul2@gmail.com> wrote:
> logged into my server an hour ago just to find that the root partition
> is 100% filled:
>
> Because of that (I think), the data directory associated with my MySQL
> installation got shot (read: disappeared!).

My experience is that directories don't disappear "automagically", someone
zapped it or the disk is b0rken.

> What would be the best way to recover the mysql data?

Restore from a backup. You *do* have backups, right?

Davide

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