When an ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystem is mounted directly on the PGDATA
directory, initdb will refuse to run because it sees the
lost+found directory that mke2fs created and assumes the PGDATA directory is
already in use for something other than PostgreSQL.
Attached is a patch against master which will cause a directory that contains
only lost+found to still be treated as empty.
This was previously proposed in 2001; see
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-03/msg01194.php
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Brian Pitts
Systems Administrator | EuPathDB Bioinformatics Resource Center
706-542-1447 | b...@uga.edu | http://eupathdb.org
>From be6eaa9474b267e669fe67a70140d46f69379968 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Pitts <br...@polibyte.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 14:12:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore lost+found when checking if a directory is empty
---
src/port/pgcheckdir.c | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/port/pgcheckdir.c b/src/port/pgcheckdir.c
new file mode 100644
index 9453bcb..01f0a2c
*** a/src/port/pgcheckdir.c
--- b/src/port/pgcheckdir.c
*************** pg_check_dir(const char *dir)
*** 42,50 ****
while ((file = readdir(chkdir)) != NULL)
{
if (strcmp(".", file->d_name) == 0 ||
! strcmp("..", file->d_name) == 0)
{
! /* skip this and parent directory */
continue;
}
else
--- 42,51 ----
while ((file = readdir(chkdir)) != NULL)
{
if (strcmp(".", file->d_name) == 0 ||
! strcmp("..", file->d_name) == 0 ||
! strcmp("lost+found", file->d_name) == 0)
{
! /* skip this, parent, and e2fsck directories */
continue;
}
else
--
1.7.4.1
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