Re: Installing Postgres

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Command I use to initialize the database with:

/usr/bin/initdb -D /abc/def/pgsql_data

Response:

The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
"my_user".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

initdb: directory "/abc/def/pgsql_data" exists but is not empty
If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty
the directory "/abc/def/pgsql_data" or run initdb
with an argument other than "/abc/def/pgsql_data".



As I stated in my original email there is a subdirectory in:
"/abc/def/pgsql_data" called "lost+found".

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 11:59 AM
To: Campbell, Lance
Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Installing Postgres

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Campbell, Lance wrote:
> 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.

*sigh*

How about an actual error message and the *exact* command you are
typing.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> 
> 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
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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