title: Installing a MySQL database onto an external harddrive
body: <p>I've been attempting to get a database onto an external hard drive to store a list of about 500,000 icons, and I'm running into an issue trying to run my script to import them all to a database.  I'm trying to follow the instructions on this blog <a href="http://blog.gamatam.com/2009/05/creating-mysql-database-on-external.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.gamatam.com/2009/05/creating-mysql-database-on-external.html</a>
  but when I get to the step to execute mysql_install_db --ldata=data it gives me an error saying  </p>
  
  <p>Installing MySQL system tables...</p>
  
  <p>110428 18:17:45 [Warning] Can't create test file /media/FreeAgentDisk/data/ubuntu.lower-test
  110428 18:17:45 [Warning] Can't create test file /media/FreeAgentDisk/data/ubuntu.lower-test</p>
  
  <p>Installation of system tables failed! Examine the logs in
  /media/FreeAgentDisk/data for more information.</p>
  
  <p>and in addition there are no log files created</p>