In previous article, we have covered some errors and issues with using MySQL in “disk full” environment. Where there was no space left on device.(See here: Testing Disk Full Conditions)

Today’s scenario is -> Starting MySQL with GTID/binary log enabled, in 0 space left Linux(CentOS 6.5) environment.

If you hit a bug or problem, general rule for helping community to fix it is to provide as much information as possible. Especially useful is to give gdb output from coredump. To get coredump you can read this wonderful article Hunting-The-Core

Now let’s explore our situation. Because our segfault is detected while starting MySQL, it is not possible to attach PID to GDB and also using strace. Our my.cnf file:

[mysqld] 
log_bin = …