On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:16:03PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > It is never a good idea to let initdb loose on a directory that might > possibly have some other purpose, including that of being the root > directory of an ext2 partition. Initdb or the database system can do > anything they want in that directory, so it's not good to save lost blocks > somewhere in the middle, even if chances are low you need them. I say, > create a subdirectory. While I agree that the PGDATA directory shouldn't be used by anything save postgres, I don't think that lost+found constitutes another use of the directory. The only way that a conflict could occur is if postgres used the lost+found directory, something I that don't expect will occur. Side note, the reason that I ran into this in the first place is because I'm toying with multiple data directories each on their own logical volume. For the directory structure I'd prefer something like postgres/data[123] rather than postgres/data[123]/data or postgres[123]/data. Steve Stock [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster