In many cases, Message Systems recommends creating a separate partition /var/db/vertica
for Vertica's data and workspace (sometimes on dedicated drives). Before installing Vertica, we will create a new user (vertica_dba
) and new group (verticadba
):
groupadd verticadba useradd -md /var/db/vertica -gverticadba vertica_dba
Doing this pre-step will avoid the following ownership warnings during installation:
Provided DB Admin account details: user = vertica_dba, group = verticadba, home = /var/db/vertica Creating group... Adding group Validating group... Okay useradd: warning: the home directory already exists. Not copying any file from skel directory into it. Creating user... Adding user Validating user... ESC[31mFailESC[0m : User's home directory is owned by some other user
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