[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“It doesn’t matter how it happened, it
doesn’t matter why, blame can (and probably
will) be placed later. What matters now is that your production
MySQL database was just deleted from the filesystem while the MySQL
daemon was running. The good news is that the server, somehow, is
still running fine, and the system is still up. The bad news is
that the directory where MySQL stores the database is now
empty.“Take a deep breath, you are running Linux, here is what to
do:”