Thanks, this is very useful! Just a heads up, the second command seems to give all users full access:
--skip-grant-tables Start without grant tables. This gives all users FULL
ACCESS to all tables.
So you better stop anything that can access the DB before you do this...
In the future there might also be an "x32" ABI in the Linux distributions, which is 64-bit and takes advantage of the increased number of registers, but uses 32-bit pointers to save memory. The Linux kernel already supports it (if enabled), but in practice it's not yet usable because the...