On 2009-06-05, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:11:29AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Jennifer Trey wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > What file should I be working with?
>>
>> Just shut down the server and move the directory whever you want and
>> restart the server. There are no file contents that need changing.
>> Of course should adjust your scripts or PGDATA environment variable.
>
> Another way to do this is to mount the drive at the place where PGDATA
> used to be. The down side of this approach is that it only works if
> you want your PGDATA at the root of that new drive.
linux (2.4 and later) can mount paths using --bind
That is, you can use mount like a symlink (except unlike a symlink the mounted
directories are still there after chroot)
>
> Cheers,
> David.
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