# Custum datadir is being ignored after a upgrade
**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/custum-datadir-is-being-ignored-after-a-upgrade/13531
**Category:** General Questions
**Created:** [December 17, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/custum-datadir-is-being-ignored-after-a-upgrade/13531 "2021-12-17T00:16:43Z")
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### Author:  [@MasterCATZ](https://forums.percona.com/u/MasterCATZ)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/custum-datadir-is-being-ignored-after-a-upgrade/13531/1 "2021-12-17T00:16:43Z")
all of these instruction were followed and working for years
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I just did an upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 and now mysql keeps using the default datadir
any idea’s what has changed the config files all seem to be pointing where I wanted them to ?
Server version: 5.7.29-32 Percona Server
Ubuntu 22.04
/etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld
/etc/apparmor.d/tunables/alias
/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf
/etc/mysql/my.cnf
are all still pointing to my datadir
mysql config files
> **[mysqlconfigs.zip](https://drive.google.com/file/d/15z3WWWs-ZjlIQh9egnPehSq5lEdy_bMf/view?usp=sharing)**
>
> Google Drive file.
[mysqlstrace.txt](https://forums.percona.com/uploads/short-url/A6mBaCnUvI391yrn4DsUa0Jsajh.txt) (369.6 KB)
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### Author:  [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2021, 4:51am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/custum-datadir-is-being-ignored-after-a-upgrade/13531/2 "2021-12-17T04:51:39Z")
Run the following to see if mysql is actually picking up your settings:
```
# mysqld --print-defaults
```
If you don’t see `--datadir=` in the output, then mysql is not picking up your config files. Check `# update-alternatives --query my.cnf` to see if the OS changed anything.
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### Author:  [@MasterCATZ](https://forums.percona.com/u/MasterCATZ)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2021, 9:44am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/custum-datadir-is-being-ignored-after-a-upgrade/13531/3 "2021-12-17T09:44:36Z")
thanks for participating , unfortunately I get empty results
aio@aio:~$ mysqld --print-defaults
mysqld would have been started with the following arguments:
aio@aio:~$
aio@aio:~$ update-alternatives --query my.cnf
Name: my.cnf
Link: /etc/mysql/my.cnf
Status: auto
Best: /etc/mysql/mariadb.cnf
Value: /etc/mysql/mariadb.cnf
Alternative: /etc/mysql/mariadb.cnf
Priority: 500
Alternative: /etc/mysql/my.cnf.fallback
Priority: 100
Alternative: /etc/mysql/percona-server.cnf
Priority: 300
aio@aio:~$
and everyone of those files has the datadir set to a custom path that is being ignored
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### Author:  [@CTutte](https://forums.percona.com/u/CTutte)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2021, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/custum-datadir-is-being-ignored-after-a-upgrade/13531/4 "2021-12-17T12:29:48Z")
Hi!
Check if /etc/my.cnf file exists and/or any other !include directive that might be trying to include another cnf file that overrides existing paths
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### Author:  [@MasterCATZ](https://forums.percona.com/u/MasterCATZ)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/custum-datadir-is-being-ignored-after-a-upgrade/13531/5 "2021-12-18T01:51:14Z")
well their was not a
/etc/my.cnf file
so I created one and now its working