diff --git a/debian/mariadb-server-10.6.mariadb.init b/debian/mariadb-server-10.6.mariadb.init
index f68fbc99bc2..4a41ed9758c 100644
--- a/debian/mariadb-server-10.6.mariadb.init
+++ b/debian/mariadb-server-10.6.mariadb.init
@@ -84,6 +84,24 @@ sanity_checks() {
 
   # check for diskspace shortage
   datadir=`mariadbd_get_param datadir`
+
+  # If datadir location is not changed int configuration
+  # then it's not printed with /usr/sbin/mariadbd --print-defaults
+  # then we use 'sane' default.
+  if [ -z "$datadir"]
+  then
+    datadir="/var/lib/mysql"
+  fi
+
+  # Check if there datadir location is available and
+  # fail if it's not
+  if [ ! -d "$datadir" ]
+  then
+    log_failure_msg "$0: ERROR: Can't locate MariaDB installation location $datadir"
+    echo                "ERROR: Can't locate MariaDB installation location $datadir" | $ERR_LOGGER
+    exit 1
+  fi
+
   # As preset blocksize of GNU df is 1024 then available bytes is $df_available_blocks * 1024
   # 4096 blocks is then lower than 4 MB
   df_available_blocks="$(LC_ALL=C BLOCKSIZE='' df --output=avail "$datadir" | tail -n 1)"