[tahoe-dev] symlink to storage on a different drive and available space reporting

[Jody Harris]

If it is documented, I never saw it. I spent about two weeks reading Tahoe
docs before I installed.
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:28 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood <
david-sarah at jacaranda.org> wrote:

> Jody Harris wrote:
> > So, we have several users who are storing the Tahoe shares on a drive
> other
> > than where /home is located.
> >
> > Our strategy at this point is to simply delete the .tahoe/storage/shares
> > directory and create a symlink to the desired storage location.
> >
> > This results in the available space reported as something completely
> > unrelated to reality.
> >
> > Obviously, this is the wrong strategy. What does the tahoe-dev team
> > recommend?
>
> A server can be created in any directory using the --basedir option.
> I think I'm also correct in saying that its files don't contain any paths
> specific to its original location, so it should be possible to move them
> anywhere and then run the server by specifying --basedir.
> This is probably not well-enough documented.
>
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