Обсуждение: Postgres 8.0 on FAT32

Hello

¿Does anybody has installed Postgres 8.0 on Windows using the MSI
Installer file that provides Postgresql Web Page using a FAT32 Partition?

I tried but I get the following error

"The PostgreSQL data directory must be on a NTFS formatted volume"

If you wish to install the data directory on another type of partition
(which is not recommended, and is unsupported) you must initialise the
database cluster manually by running initdb.exe

How can I fix it?


Tanks in advanced

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Eduardo,

> ¿Does anybody has installed Postgres 8.0 on Windows using the MSI
> Installer file that provides Postgresql Web Page using a FAT32 Partition?

Well, advice #1: Don't do this.  Use an NTFS partition.

> If you wish to install the data directory on another type of partition
> (which is not recommended, and is unsupported) you must initialise the
> database cluster manually by running initdb.exe
>
> How can I fix it?

That seems pretty clear to me.   Using FAT32 is a bad idea, if you want to do
it anyway, you'll have to run initdb.exe manually, from the command line.

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

Hello I fixed using NTFS, what I made was changing from command line
from NTFS to FAT32 using the following sintax

C:>convert D: /FS:NTFS

I do not lose any data on D: Drive

Thanks for your help

Josh Berkus wrote:

>Eduardo,
>
>
>
>>¿Does anybody has installed Postgres 8.0 on Windows using the MSI
>>Installer file that provides Postgresql Web Page using a FAT32 Partition?
>>
>>
>
>Well, advice #1: Don't do this.  Use an NTFS partition.
>
>
>
>>If you wish to install the data directory on another type of partition
>>(which is not recommended, and is unsupported) you must initialise the
>>database cluster manually by running initdb.exe
>>
>>How can I fix it?
>>
>>
>
>That seems pretty clear to me.   Using FAT32 is a bad idea, if you want to do
>it anyway, you'll have to run initdb.exe manually, from the command line.
>
>
>

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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of the giants
Isaac Newton