Creating the Data Directory and Granting Permissions

Create a data directory to store Greenplum data files.

1. Create the data directory /data and related directories for processes.

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   mkdir /data mkdir -p /data/gpdb/segdata mkdir -p /data/gpdb/master

2. Change the user group and user permission on the data directory to gpadmin:gpadmin.

   1 2	chown -R gpadmin:gpadmin /data/gpdb/segdata chown -R gpadmin:gpadmin /data/gpdb/master