Which FM did you read? There are several, but the Admin Guide talks about
disk management in chapter 10.
I put my databases in /home with postmaster running like this:
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /home/post/data -i
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Jeremy Buchmann
System Admin/Database Programmer
Wells Gaming Research
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>From: Brian Horan <bhoran@herald.com>
>To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
>Subject: [ADMIN] same postmaster, different directory? V7.0.2
>Date: Mon, Sep 11, 2000, 10:42 AM
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> Howdy, I was wondering if anyone can help me, I'm running Postgres
> version 7.0.2,
> and I have several existing databases in /var and wanted to put one in
> /home, because of disk space.
>
> my only problem is that It will not let me do so, no matter what.
> Postgres was installed via rpm on RatHead 6.2
> and if there is something I can edit in a source file, that is not a
> problem.
>
> Any thoughts? coments?
>
> yes, I have RTFM'd
>
>
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