Moving fulcrum database to other internal drive

[Knrrm]

My OS is Linux mint. My main drive is slowly but surely running out of space. In order to keep running my node for a while longer before buying new hardware and starting from scratch, I need to migrate fulcrum database to the other internal drive I have on my computer. If this is even possible, which are the exact steps I chronologically have to do to accomplish this?

[cculianu]

cp -fpvra is your friend here.

Also you can move individual subdirs or top level files from the data/ directory to a different drive .. and symlink them back in from the main folder... don't move the rocksdb table files within the subfolders tho or you will have a bad time...

[Knrrm]

Ok, thx a lot. Had to read up what all those flags do. 😅

I'm no expert unfortunately, certainly not with symlinks. Don't I have to change
datadir = /path/to/a/dir
in the conf file to point to the copied database folder? And I'm guessing I should shutdown fulcrum (and probably also bitcoin core?) before I start all this, right?

[cculianu]

Yes to both those things

[Knrrm]

Ok thx, is there anything else I need to consider to get this right?