MySQL Error 28

October 28th, 2005

Sorry if you’ve been getting some errors when trying to visit this blog. Specifically MySQL error 28. This technically isn’t my fault, what happened was that the server this site runs on ran out of space in the temporary directory that holds the buffered tables some of Wordpress’s queries need.

There are various fixes that are suggested on the internet. Using phpMyAdmin to repair the tables worked the first time, but the problem remained. The way I solved it was to spuriously delete folders in the /tmp directory, well just those unwieldy web statistics programs. The problem seems to have cleared up, but to be on the safe side, I think I’ll look into using the MySQL server supplied by my ISP.

One more thing: backup, backup, backup your files!

2 Responses to “MySQL Error 28”

  1. Aranil Says:
    October 28th, 2005 at 8:22 pm

    because in england, men don’t wear kilts ^_~

  2. Alex Says:
    October 29th, 2005 at 11:24 am

    They could, they could.

    :P