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!

  • Rikudou_Sage
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    3•10 months ago

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

    • @RagingToad@feddit.nlEnglish
      2•10 months ago

      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_Sage
        AEnglish
        1•10 months 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.