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Title: Bitcoin client move location
Post by: Eternity on January 17, 2014, 10:25:26 AM
Using Ubuntu latest

Say you have drives C & D

When you install and start downloading the blockchains and others default drive C is used. Now i am running out of space.

Want to move those already downloaded and the new ones that will be downloaded while updating to drive D.

Can anyone tell me the step to do

Thanks in advance


Title: Re: Bitcoin client move location
Post by: elbandi on January 17, 2014, 12:57:23 PM
use datadir (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory) parameter


Title: Re: Bitcoin client move location
Post by: Eternity on January 17, 2014, 01:52:59 PM
Could not find any solution on this


Title: Re: Bitcoin client move location
Post by: elbandi on January 17, 2014, 02:30:54 PM
did you read the wiki page  ???

here are the steps:
  • find the current data directory
  • move the directory to D (or where you have space)
  • run bitcoin wallet with datadir parameter to use that directory

Elbandi


Title: Re: Bitcoin client move location
Post by: Eternity on January 19, 2014, 09:23:13 PM
So you mean to say this needs to be executed from terminal


Title: Re: Bitcoin client move location
Post by: spin on January 20, 2014, 11:24:00 AM
You can also put it in the bitcoin.conf file:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin


Title: Re: Bitcoin client move location
Post by: Eternity on February 14, 2014, 12:35:57 PM
Kindly write the steps thats needed


Title: Re: Bitcoin client move location
Post by: Eternity on February 14, 2014, 12:39:25 PM
./bitcoin-qt -datadir=<drive location>


Title: Re: Bitcoin client move location
Post by: Truecoin on February 14, 2014, 12:44:23 PM
Using Ubuntu latest

Say you have drives C & D

When you install and start downloading the blockchains and others default drive C is used. Now i am running out of space.

Want to move those already downloaded and the new ones that will be downloaded while updating to drive D.

Can anyone tell me the step to do

Thanks in advance

How could you have drives C & D in Ubuntu? Or are you running Ubuntu in virtual machine?


Title: Re: Bitcoin client move location
Post by: Eternity on February 14, 2014, 10:03:59 PM
Not having them to show an example

They start /dev/

Can you tell me how to do the thing


Title: Re: Bitcoin client move location
Post by: fronti on February 14, 2014, 11:12:04 PM
Use a symlink from$HOME/.bitcoin to here you have Space.