diff --git a/Docs/manual.texi b/Docs/manual.texi index 0a5b51456c3..890debe354b 100644 --- a/Docs/manual.texi +++ b/Docs/manual.texi @@ -27968,7 +27968,6 @@ spreading your tables to different disk. The recommended way to do this, is to just symlink databases to a different disk and only symlink tables as a last resort. -@cindex databases, symbolic links @menu * Symbolic links to databases:: Using Symbolic Links for Databases * Symbolic links to tables:: Using Symbolic Links for Tables @@ -27978,6 +27977,8 @@ different disk and only symlink tables as a last resort. @node Symbolic links to databases, Symbolic links to tables, Symbolic links, Symbolic links @subsubsection Using Symbolic Links for Databases +@cindex databases, symbolic links + The way to symlink a database is to first create a directory on some disk where you have free space and then create a symlink to it from the MySQL database directory. @@ -28023,7 +28024,7 @@ databases on different disks. @xref{Windows symbolic links}. @node Symbolic links to tables, , Symbolic links to databases, Symbolic links @subsubsection Using Symbolic Links for Tables -@cindex databases, symbolic links +@cindex tables, symbolic links Before MySQL 4.0 you should not symlink tables, if you are not very careful with them. The problem is that if you run @code{ALTER