Re: [Q] createdb for existing directory

* Roderick A. Anderson <raanders@altoplanos.net> [001016 12:32] wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> > huh?  How are you copying to an unmounted partition?
>
> Sorry I left that step out of the description.  I usually mount it to some
> dumy point long enough to copy the files then unmount it and mount it to
> the database directory.

You could use a symlink and just keep using a different mountpoint.

postgresql should follow a symlink for the -D datadir option.

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