hi I tried to create a table in my sql by executing the following query.


CREATE TABLE product
(
prodID INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT,
description VARCHAR(100),
PRIMARY KEY(prodID)
);

But it is not working, The error is


ERROR 3: Error writing file './test/product.frm' (Errcode: 28)

Help Me I am Very New to Mysql

Thanks.......

Check the permissions on the mysql data directory - does the user that mysql is running as have write access to it?

I am able to delete existing tables.It means that i have the writing permissions??

No, it's not the same. You need to check the permissions, I think. I don't know how you have your MySQL installed, but look into /var/lib/mysql, it may be the right directory.

I am entering from the root account,and i used mysql -h sr2 -u root tes for entering into mysql, and i dont have a password,is there any wrong with that??

Thanks for ur valuable reply

I also set the /var/lib/mysql and its contents to 777 .,yet it is not working

Can you post the output from:
ls -la /var/lib/mysql
ps -ef | grep mysql
df -h

ls -la /var/lib/mysql output is

total 16
4 drwxrwxrwx 2 mysql mysql 4096 Jun 27 19:05 mysql
4 drwxrwxrwx 2 mysql mysql 4096 Jun 27 18:26 project
4 drwxrwxrwx 2 mysql mysql 4096 Jun 27 19:19 test
4 -rwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 763 Jun 27 19:22 valuestoadd


ps -ef | grep mysql


root 1082 1 0 19:16 tty1 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --d
mysql 1109 1082 0 19:16 tty1 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-f

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda13 5.3G 5.2G 0 100% /
/dev/hda3 76M 17M 55M 24% /boot
/dev/hda12 7.9G 6.0G 1.6G 79% /home
none 109M 0 108M 0% /dev/shm

I think the problem is with space .
But i can create text files on /

It is a space issue. You can probably create files as root but not as a regular or system user like mysql. I suggest that you free ups some space on /. Perhaps you could move your databases to /home/mysql/data - that will give you more space for them and free up space on the / partition

Thank you sir that is the problem.Then how can i change the directory(By just moving??),
how i inform mysql that the directory is changed?
Thank you

The best way is to:
1) Stop mysqld
2) Move the data to it's new location - ie "/home/mysql/data"
3) Change the options when you start mysqld to use "--datadir=/home/mysql/data"
4) Start mysqld