InnoDB: Error: data file /var/db/mysql/ibdata1 is of a different size InnoDB: 305792 pages (rounded down to MB) InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 128000 pages! InnoDB: Could not open or create data files. InnoDB: If you tried to add new data files, and it failed here, InnoDB: you should now edit innodb_data_file_path in my.cnf back InnoDB: to what it was, and remove the new ibdata files InnoDB created InnoDB: in this failed attempt. InnoDB only wrote those files full of InnoDB: zeros, but did not yet use them in any way. But be careful: do not InnoDB: remove old data files which contain your precious data!