Move discourse to another partition

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The discussion revolves around moving Discourse to another partition due to growing data and limited space on the root partition. hnaseri shares the current disk usage and seeks help. fefrei suggests stopping Docker, moving the offending folders, and creating symlinks to maintain original locations, while emphasizing the importance of good performance characteristics. riking proposes a simpler approach by moving only the /var/discourse/shared directory, as the image itself does not grow significantly, but the uploads and database do.

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How can I move my discourse to home partition? Right now all discourse data is in root partition and its growing fast. I am getting close to no space in my root partition.

df -h
Filesystem           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/cl-root   50G   30G   21G  59% /
devtmpfs             7.7G     0  7.7G   0% /dev
tmpfs                7.7G     0  7.7G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                7.7G  731M  7.0G  10% /run
tmpfs                7.7G     0  7.7G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2           1016M  176M  840M  18% /boot
/dev/sda1            200M  9.5M  191M   5% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/cl-home  221G   86G  136G  39% /home
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/0
overlay               50G   30G   21G  59% /var/lib/docker/overlay/569939c5551cf2b821429584916dcaec83a644384abcd4c35b6423d58471fa92/merged
shm                   64M  4.0K   64M   1% /var/lib/docker/containers/97dbcf0e733dde1cf80748fbde49bb770587c23e675c4610f9ceca12c6aecd56/shm
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The easiest way is to make sure Docker is stopped, move the offending folder(s) and create symlinks so they still appear in the original locations.

Make sure that whatever you do to /var/lib/docker/ and /var/discourse, they stay on a volume with good performance characteristics, or you’ll be in for a bad time :slight_smile:

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Could even just move /var/discourse/shared. The image itself doesn’t grow too much, while the uploads & database will.