i was flooded once again with mcron-mails "ERROR 144 (HY000) at line 1: Table './asterisk/cdr' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed" well, because mariadb creates such temp files and don't remove them which makes myisam-recover-options = "FORCE" useless -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 0 2015-08-21 13:47 cdr.TMM MariaDB [asterisk]> optimize table cdr; +--------------+----------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Table | Op | Msg_type | Msg_text | +--------------+----------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | asterisk.cdr | optimize | error | Can't create new tempfile: '/Volumes/dune/mysql_data/asterisk/cdr.TMM' | | asterisk.cdr | optimize | status | Operation failed | +--------------+----------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+