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Mon 20th Nov '00, 9:17am

Its a habit to just do a "shutdown -r now". Should I be shutting down mysql before restarting? I hear horror stories about corrupting databases and I just want to prevent this is possible.

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eva2000

Mon 20th Nov '00, 10:17am

yes, i have been told it's best to shut down mysql before doing a server reboot