Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51FFD9FA4DA for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:26:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 70601-02-5 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:26:40 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from westnet.com (westnet.com [216.187.52.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839379FA697 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:25:41 -0300 (ADT) Received: from westnet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by westnet.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l7NHPgfd023662; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:25:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gsmith@localhost) by westnet.com (8.14.0/8.13.2/Submit) with ESMTP id l7NHPgEM023658; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:25:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: westnet.com: gsmith owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:25:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Smith X-X-Sender: gsmith@westnet.com To: "Campbell, Lance" cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Installing PostgreSQL In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200708/266 X-Sequence-Number: 26396 On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Campbell, Lance wrote: > Should installation questions be sent here or to the admin listserv? admin or general would be more appropriate for this type of question. > The directory is called pgsql_data. The directory is more than a > regular directory. It contains a subdirectory called "lost+found". I > would assume this is a logical partition. It's a partition of some sort. lost+found shows up in the root directory of any partition you create, it's where damaged files found by fsck go. See http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/lostfound.html for more information. > I tried installing postgreSQL directly into this directory but it > failed since there is a file in this directory, "lost+found". Is there > a way around this? Worst case scenario I will create a subdirectory > called data and put the install in there. You will have to create subdirectory in this new partition in order for initdb to have a place it can work in. What you should probably do here is have your administrator rename the mount point to something more generic, like "data" or "postgres", to avoid confusion here; then you'd have PGDATA pointing to data/pgsql_data or postgres/pgsql_data which won't be as confusing. -- * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD