MySQL: #126 - Incorrect key file for table

mysql mysql-error-126
Brian picture Brian · Jan 6, 2010 · Viewed 131.2k times · Source

I got the following error from a MySQL query.

#126 - Incorrect key file for table

I have not even declared a key for this table, but I do have indices. Does anyone know what could be the problem?

Answer

Monsters X picture Monsters X · Dec 8, 2011

Every Time this has happened, it's been a full disk in my experience.

EDIT

It is also worth noting that this can be caused by a full ramdisk when doing things like altering a large table if you have a ramdisk configured. You can temporarily comment out the ramdisk line to allow such operations if you can't increase the size of it.

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