Thanks to the advice I received in this forum, I have succesfully edited fstab so that my NAS is properly mounted when my Linux boxes reboot. I have tested this by creating simple text files and saving them to directories on the NAS. I then used MySQL Workbench to tell MySQL to put all it's data on the NAS, and when I check my.cnf, that worked as expected. However, from that point onward, MySQL has refused to start. What I get is an error message saying only that it failed to start, but nothing to indicate why or how to fix it. I asked about this on the Google mysql newsgroup, but I now see that traffice there is so low, I may not live long enough to see a response. Thus, I am hoping that there are enough MySQL users here who know well how to administer MySQL on Suse 12.3 and who can tell me a) how to fix this and b) what the correct procedure is to have MySQL store all it's data on my NAS (and whether or not the same procedure would work on Ubuntu). I'd remind those who respond, I am a programmer and know almost nothing about administering Linux boxes (I am still learning the basics of Linux system administration it seems). Thanks Ted -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org