Re: PostgreSQL Database Transfer between machines(again)

From: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Database Transfer between machines(again)
Date: 2006-10-05 20:55:55
Message-ID: 4525715B.7040705@cox.net
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On 10/05/06 14:50, Brian J. Erickson wrote:
>>> Problem:
>>> PostgreSQL "Service" is not runing on a Linux Box,
>> Why not?
> The file "/etc/mtab" has been corrupted, when start
> postgresql the "Service" dies because of an "input/output"
> error.
>
> Therefore, "pg_dumpall' won't work.

Doesn't /etc/mtab get recreated at boot?

And since it's a text file, can't someone fix it with $EDITOR?

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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