Postgres 15.3 fails to create new tablespace (could not set permissions)

I am unable to create new tablespaces on a fresh Postgres 15.3 installation on Ubuntu 22.04. I tried the following so far:

• re-install Postgres
• fully loosen file system permission
• disabled SELinux

But still the postgres users reports it cannot set permissions on the tablespace folder. The log is below.

$ mkdir -p /media/user/Work/Databases/geo

$ chown -R postgres:postgres /media/user/Work/Databases

$ sudo chmod -R 777 /media/user/Work/Databases

$ setenforce 0
setenforce: SELinux is disabled

$ sestatus
SELinux status:                 disabled

$ sudo su postgres
postgres@luis-workstation:/home/user$ psql
could not change directory to "/home/user": Permission denied
psql (15.3 (Ubuntu 15.3-1.pgdg22.04+1))
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# CREATE TABLESPACE geo
  OWNER postgres
  LOCATION '/media/user/Work/Databases/geo';
ERROR:  could not set permissions on directory "/media/user/Work/Databases/geo": Permission denied

posted 10 months ago

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Luís de Sousa‭

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