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Ignore lost+found when checking if a directory is empty

Brian Pitts <bdp@uga.edu> — 2011-08-09T18:52:25Z

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
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