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!
You could just move the data to the new location and then make it a symbolic link to the new disk.
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? :-)
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.
Thanks!
You could something like mergefs to just merge both drives together. Then you wouldn’t need to add a new pathway.
