MySQL Error – “The partition with /var/lib/mysql is too full”

Have you encountered this error when trying to start MySQL on your Linux server? Turns out all you need to do is sudo.

Initially, I used this to start MySQL server: /etc/init.d/mysql  start

I encountered the error: “The partition with /var/lib/mysql is too full”

Then I put sudo in from of my statement : sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start

MySQL starts successfully.