Topic: Moving blockchain to another drive on ubuntu (Read 639 times)
this flag will work?. that´s great!. Thanks for your help!.
OR, you can create a new partition on your SSD, format it, move all your data in ~/.bitcoin to the new partition, mount the partition to ~/.bitcoin (make sure to edit your fstab).
This will probably be easyer.
This will probably be easyer.
bitcoind -daemon -datadir=/path/to/mystoragedrive/.bitcoin
The solution you seek is in your post already... Just move the data to the drive you want and specify it's path with the datadir command.
Hello, would like to move my 53GB folder ./bitcoin, of course to another drive because I m running out of space on my SSD. I tried, but I cannot do it:
first I go to my home directory by typing cd /home
then I try to create a symbolic link
sudo ln -s /path/to/mystoragedrive/.bitcoin .bitcoin
it returns me back to the "$" line with no errors so I suppose the command runs fine but...
well I start again the dowloading of the blockchain with
bitcoind -daemon
but the blocks download to my SSD drive. So nothing has changed after running this.
Should I erase or change the name of my ./bitcoin folder of the SSD?, right now I got this 53GB folder ( ./bitcoin ) both in my storage drive and my SSD.
or maybe this would solve the problem:?
bitcoind -daemon -datadir=/path/to/mystoragedrive/.bitcoin
or maybe could I change something on the config files of bitcoind and/or bitcoin-qt.? I don´t wanna deal with this -datadir flag every time I start the program.
Please help, would not like to mess up anything that´s why I´m asking. Kind regards!.
first I go to my home directory by typing cd /home
then I try to create a symbolic link
sudo ln -s /path/to/mystoragedrive/.bitcoin .bitcoin
it returns me back to the "$" line with no errors so I suppose the command runs fine but...
well I start again the dowloading of the blockchain with
bitcoind -daemon
but the blocks download to my SSD drive. So nothing has changed after running this.
Should I erase or change the name of my ./bitcoin folder of the SSD?, right now I got this 53GB folder ( ./bitcoin ) both in my storage drive and my SSD.
or maybe this would solve the problem:?
bitcoind -daemon -datadir=/path/to/mystoragedrive/.bitcoin
or maybe could I change something on the config files of bitcoind and/or bitcoin-qt.? I don´t wanna deal with this -datadir flag every time I start the program.
Please help, would not like to mess up anything that´s why I´m asking. Kind regards!.
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