Changing the tmp folder of mysql

Question

Our Mysql queries use temporary tables which creates temporary files in the process. Currently the files are written to /tmp. How exactly can the path of the temp folder to whic

Answer 1

This maybe helpful for MySql with AppArmor

stop mysql :

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Create directory called /somewhere/tmp

Edit Config:

sudo vim /etc/mysql/my.cnf # or perhaps sudo vim /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf

change

tmpdir = /somewhere/tmp/

Then

sudo vim /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld

Add

# Allow data dir access
  /somewhere/ r,
  /somewhere/** rwk,

sudo chown -R root:root /somewhere

sudo chmod -R 1777 /somewhere

Restart

 sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor reload

 sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart