how to change the default image store location?

[dureal99d]

Hello All!!

I am running fog trunk version on bare metal and it runs great and it fits my needs thus far without any issues.

I would like to know if I were to create a folder on my biggest drive and point the fog program to that location would that be good enough?

I am aware I would have to also update or rather export the nfs for this location as well.

But I cant help but think I’m missing something else I would have to do.

any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Wayne Workman]

There have actually been several threads on this very topic recently. Here are a few:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6642/moving-fog-s-images-files-off-the-root-partition

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6617/moving-storage-to-different-location/9

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6580/changing-the-directory-where-fog-images-are-stored-question/28

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6605/fog-upload-in-images-dev-default-node-instead-of-home-backup-dev-other-node

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6583/storing-images-on-nas-network-share/7

Please do let us know if you need further assistance.

[george1421]

I did just setup something like this last friday. Its documented in the first link Wayne posted (it did take a bit of noodling to figure this one out). The key/trick is to use a bind-mount (like a super-duper symbolic link). You can’t use symbolic links because NFS can’t share them and/or NFS doesn’t have the concept of share aliases. The bind-mounts NFS can follow and share. If you use the bind mount then you don’t have to do anything FOG since fog still sees the /images folder, the OS redirects access to the mounted directory.

The only caveat I have to say about my setup is that I have not uploaded an image yet to this setup. I can affirm that the download works as advertised.