Title: Block Chain Download Location help Post by: Dan1320 on June 26, 2015, 02:25:43 AM What are the commands to Create a Dir to install the Binaries and create dir for Each coin when i want the directories and the coin block chains to be downloaded and created on and external drive that i am using that has considerable more space than the hard drive that Ubuntu and my mining pool is currently installed to
Currently the commands are mkdir ~/bin mkdir ~/.bitcoin mkdir ~/.namecoin mkdir ~/.ixcoin mkdir ~/.devcoin what changes do i need to make to those commands to have them created on the external drive Thanks for any help Daniel Title: Re: Block Chain Download Location help Post by: OmegaStarScream on June 26, 2015, 06:29:18 AM I was just searching and found out that By default Bitcoin will put its data here: ~/.bitcoin/
Check here the bitcoin wiki (it contains all the informations about the blockchain path for each operating system) : https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory Title: Re: Block Chain Download Location help Post by: Muhammed Zakir on June 26, 2015, 11:20:56 AM • Go to /usr/share/applications.
• Right click on the Bitcoin file, then select the "Copy" option. • Right click on the desktop and select "Paste". • Right click this shortcut, select "Properties" and replace the command field with bitcoin-qt -datadir=path, where path is the fully qualified path to the new data directory. • Double clicking the resulting shortcut starts Bitcoin Core with the custom data directory. Another way: • Open file browser. • Select View -> Show Hidden Files menu option. • Close Bitcoin Core if it is running. • Copy the default .bitcoin folder to new directory(here, external drive). • Rename default folder .bitcoin to something else. Eg:- bitcoin-old. • Open Bitcoin Core. • A window[1] appears asking you to choose a location. Choose Use a custom data directory option. • Type the path to new directory in the field or click the ... button to point to the new location and click OK. [1] http://bitzuma.com/images/posts/20150319/choose-data-directory.png Source: http://bitzuma.com/posts/moving-the-bitcoin-core-data-directory/. |