-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ray Leventhal wrote: | Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem? If you're asking because you're concerned about backup/restore then you'll want to forget about the location of the data files and instead use the mysqldump command to make your backups. If you're interested from the capacity planning standpoint then the answer is that CentOS configures MySQL to live in the /var/lib/mysql directory. Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH8VnsCFu3bIiwtTARAqr6AJ4+4ebIBElzscaAv4V2lzvWlawSqQCfW3pz mpjjqFcZM08jrOS6GK6r4Ho= =7vI8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----