This is not an ownership issue. It does try to install PostgreSQL. It complains because there is a file or directory in the directory where I am installing PostgreSQL to. The same thing will happen if I create a directory called XYZ and place a file or directory inside of XYZ and then try to install the database. Thanks, Lance Campbell Project Manager/Software Architect Web Services at Public Affairs University of Illinois 217.333.0382 http://webservices.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:48 AM To: Campbell, Lance Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Installing Postgres -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Campbell, Lance wrote: > OS: redhat linux > > Version of PostgreSQL: 8.2.4 > > > > I had a group that now manages our server set up a directory/partition > for us to put postgreSQL into. 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. 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. I would have preferred to put it It is probably an ownership issue. If this is linux the mount is probably owned by root. Create a sub directory in pgsql_data that is owned by postgres called pgsql and install it in there. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > directly into the pgsql_data. There would be no other files that would > have gone into the directory/partition other than postgreSQL. Would it > be possible for me to install postgreSQL into a sub directory of > pgsql_data and then move the files up a directory into pgsql_data? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Lance Campbell > > Project Manager/Software Architect > > Web Services at Public Affairs > > University of Illinois > > 217.333.0382 > > http://webservices.uiuc.edu > > > > - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGzbpEATb/zqfZUUQRAjxKAJ43ucUbt5G5GmxzlqJ8tmHrOxfGfwCaAsj1 F4Rq/EaDnM7ZB691p2R+mAo= =U+lm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
