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This article will show you how to solve the following problem:
Error: MySQL - mysqldump: Got error: 1016: Can't open file: './exampledb/xxx.frm' (errno: 24) when using LOCK TABLES
This issue can happen when you try to create a MySQL database dump with the mysqldump command on Linux:
mysqldump -u root -pmysecretpassword --opt exampledb > exampledb.sql
[email protected]:/tmp/mysql# mysqldump -u root -pmysecretpassword --opt exampledb > exampledb.sql
mysqldump: Got error: 1016: Can't open file: './exampledb/xxx.frm' (errno: 24) when using LOCK TABLES
[email protected]:/tmp/mysql#
Solution for the mysqldum error
Add the option --lock-tables=false to the mysqldump command as shown below:
mysqldump -u root -pmysecretpassword --opt exampledb --lock-tables=false > exampledb.sql
This will fix the issue.
