Urgent! mysqlcheck issues

[DigitalCrowd]

I am trying to get my DB back in working order. However, mysqlcheck keeps filling up my / partition, even though everything is on the /var parition which has ample space.

How can I stop mysqlcheck from using / partition and use /var or other? It fills up that space in just a few seconds and its done.

If I could figure out what it was writing to, i could put in a a link or something to a different partition, but can't find anything on where it is writing or how to change the partition.

All "paths" in my.cnf point to /var

 

[DigitalCrowd]

Killing the mysql server free's up this space on the / partition. Starting mysqld doesn't use it, until mysqlcheck -r is issued.

 

[DigitalCrowd]

found it. it was all in /tmp although I never saw any files in there that where new or du reporting no real usage. Oh well... back in business.