As an experiment to save space for learning purposes I put the Geth binary on an external drive thinking that the node would automatically download to that same exerted disk. I ran that binary (not the Homebrew installed binary) via Bash but the Ethereum node still got installed in the default /Users/Satoshi/Library/Ethereum/
Do I have to create a specific bash? There are already paths in my bash file.
Or should I just download the entire Ethereum node currently 80GB, then move that Ethereum folder over to the external drive? If this is possible;
1.how do I tell Mist/ETHWallet to connect to that node on the external drive?
2. Every time I run Geth from Bash how do I get Bash i.e. Terminal app to recognize by default the Geth binary that is not in the usual default home directory but the Geth binary that is on my external disk?
From what I've read I might be able to create a symlink? Copy the original Ethereum folder to my external hd then create a symlink like so?
ln -s /external-disk-path /Users/Satoshi/Library/Ethereum
Topic: macOS - Installing Ethereum blockchain on external hd (Read 76 times)
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