# Using Percona  Configuration Wizard for version 5.6

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**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [September 25, 2014, 9:33am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/using-percona-configuration-wizard-for-version-5-6/3773 "2014-09-25T09:33:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![nicom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/958977/32.png) [@nicom](https://forums.percona.com/u/nicom)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 9:33am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/using-percona-configuration-wizard-for-version-5-6/3773/1 "2014-09-25T09:33:13Z")

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Hi There  
After using the Configuration wizzard here : [](http://tools.percona.com/wizard)[URL=“[http://tools.percona.com/wizard](http://tools.percona.com/wizard)”][MySQL Tools and Management Software to Perform System Tasks by Percona](https://tools.percona.com/wizard%5B/URL%5D)

One has the values to put into your my.cnf file  
sudo nano /etc/my.cnf

The following values need to be used :  
innodb-buffer-pool-size = 24G  
datadir = /app/mysql/

I had to make a symlink for : /var/lib/mysql to point to my new drive partition : /app/mysql  
sudo ln -s /app/mysql /var/lib/mysql

As I could not figure out how to get datadir = /app/mysql/ to work

However Percona has discontinued the /etc/my.cnf file for version 5.6.

The question is :  
How do you use the values from the Percona Configuration Wizard with version 5.6 without using the my.cnf file ?

regards  
Nico