Re: database's on a separate partition

Jennifer,

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:22:51PM +0000, Jennifer Lee wrote:
> I'm running cygwin 1.3.2 and postgresql 7.3.1 on Windows XP. I
> wanted to initialize postgres so the databases will be stored on a
> separate partition from where cygwin and postgresql are installed.
> e.g.
> cygwin and postgresql are on c:
> if I run :
> initidb -D /cygdrive/k:/postgresql/data
                        ^
                        *

> where c: and k: are different partitions on the same disk.
>
> Has anyone run into problems doing something like this, or is it not
> recomended? I've searched the archives and not found anything that
> says not to.

The above is fine except for the colon.  Remove it and you should be
fine.

BTW, you can use mount points or symlinks so that things look more
Unixy.

Jason

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