Campbell, Lance wrote:
Should installation questions be sent here or to the admin listserv?
Probably the pgsql-general/admin/novice lists
OS: redhat linux
RHES?
Version of PostgreSQL: 8.2.4
OK
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.
No - if you get filesystem corruption any recovered disk-blocks are put
into files here. All your disk partitions will have such a directory.
> 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.
That's what you want to do. Apart from anything else it lets you set
ownership & permission of the directory.
> I would have preferred to put it
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?
Just symlink your directory to the correct place if that's what you want.
Partition at: /mnt/pg_disk
Directory is: /mnt/pg_disk/data
symlink to: /var/db/data
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