title: How does MySQL store rows on disk?
body: <p>I'm looking for documentation on how MySQL stores data on disk, in particular InnoDB and MyISAM.</p>
  
  <p>I took a database course back in college (and wrote a primitive database) so I have a general idea.</p>
  
  <p>I could ask a bunch of questions here about how various types are stored in rows, and how rows are stored on disk, or go whole-hog and just describe my entire system in excruciating detail and ask for how to structure it, but I think simply learning how it stores records would let me figure it out by myself with a lot less bandwidth.</p>
  
  <p>Is this documented anywhere (outside of the source code)?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>