Hi there, I have downloaded release 8.x for installation. Compilation and so on works fine (FreeBSD 5.2.1) initdb fails with the following informations: copying template1 to template0 ... cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/16384: Invalid argument cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17175: Invalid argument cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17180: Invalid argument cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17183: Invalid argument cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17185: Invalid argument ... FATAL: could not initialize database directory DETAIL: Failing system command was: cp -r '/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1' '/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/17229' HINT: Look in the postmaster's stderr log for more information. child process exited with exit code 1 initdb: removing data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data" Anything I can do? -- Best regards Bo ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend