ERROR 1114 (HY000): The table 'XXX' is full

Question

I know this question was asked before, but nothing seems to help.

I had this issue 2 - 3 days ago, asked server support, and they told me that I have to move mysql

Answer 1

Issue was from mysql using /var/tmp as tmpdir which is not big enough to copy the table and create the needed indexes. I fixed it by changing tmpdir location to a place that contains more space.

first I created /home/mysql/tmp directory

  mkdir /home/mysql/tmp

then I changed the owner of that directory to mysql:mysql

  chown mysql:mysql /home/mysql/tmp

then I stopped mysql server

  service mysql stop

then started it again with the following command:

  service mysql start --tmpdir=/home/mysql/tmp