Hello.
My situation is the following:
I have this external USB HDD with 1Tb which I was using, among other stuff, to store my blockchain folder and what I did was to create a symlink in my home dir, named .bitcoin, pointing to this data folder in this external USB HDD. However, whenever an error occurs in the database, this HDD is very slow when I ask bitcoin daemon to -reindex-chainstate.
So, I was suggested to keep only the
blocks in this external HDD and move the rest of the data folder into my SDD and this way, whenever another error would occur with the blockchain folder, it would be faster to -reindex-chainstate.
What I did was to copy to my home folder, the data base folder, except the debug files and the
blocks folder, and I commented out from the bitcoin core config file the follwoing lines:
#conf=/media/WdElements/blockchain-backup/bitcoin.conf
#datadir=/media/WdElements/blockchain-backup
because now, the data folder was in it's default location (at my home folder) and I started bitcoin daemon using
bitoicnd -blocksdir=WdElements/blockchain-backup/ but the daemon stops shortly after saying it couldn't initialize the database.
So, what am I doing wrong?