JMM (jmm(at)cvni(dot)net) reports a bug with a severity of 4
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Short Description
initdb fails on an ext2/3 fs mounted on /var/lib/pgsql/data
Long Description
If a whole filesystem (eg a whole disk in one filesystem that is dedicated to postgres data) is mounted on data location (typically /var/lib/pgsql/data), initdb files besause of the existence of the lost+found directory in the filesystem root.
There is an easy by pass by moving lost+found elsewhere, run initdb and re move lost+found to its original location. Nevertheless, having initdb tolerate lost+found (or equivalents for other fs types) would be an improvement.
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