Re: Postgres 8.0 on FAT32 - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Eduardo Vázquez Rodríguez
Subject Re: Postgres 8.0 on FAT32
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Msg-id 41F8164F.4020200@insys-corp.com.mx
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In response to Re: Postgres 8.0 on FAT32  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
List pgsql-novice
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,
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>>¿Does anybody has installed Postgres 8.0 on Windows using the MSI
>>Installer file that provides Postgresql Web Page using a FAT32 Partition?
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>Well, advice #1: Don't do this.  Use an NTFS partition.
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>>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
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>>How can I fix it?
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>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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