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[Question] How do I add storage locations to Lemmy? (lemmy.basedcount.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Atalocke@lemmy.basedcount.com to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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Soon, I'll need to increase the storage capacity of my Lemmy server. I use a Digital Ocean VPS running Debian 11. I don't really need to increase the RAM, CPU, or other core system resources so I planning on adding some block storage to my VPS. My question is: How can I tell Lemmy/Pict-rs to store/retrieve new data here without losing my existing data?

Assume the volume will be positioned on /mnt/vol-1.

Thanks in advance!

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You could just move the data to the new location and then make it a symbolic link to the new disk.

[–] RagingToad@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Could even be a hard link.. (some applications don't like symbolic links).

Edit: or a mount point.

Make sure to stop the application, mount the drive and link it, start the application again You have a backup? :-)

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 2 years ago

You can't do hard link to a directory, can you? Most of the time symbolic link works well, but yeah, sometimes you're gonna have to do a bind mount.