Store blocks on a 2nd SDD

Bitcoin and Lightning
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I have 2 SDD, 250G and 1TB. the first one (250gb) has umbrel installed. I want to store the blocks in the 2nd one (1tb). Its mounted under /mnt/data-disk/bitcoin/blocks/

I already tried creating a bitcoin.conf with “blocksdir=/mnt/data-disk/bitcoin/blocks/” but bitcoind not even start.

Any idea?

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I simply mounted a drive (for me it is iscsi, for you it will be your SSD) to the bitcoin volume mount.

sudo mount /dev/sdb /home/userfolder/umbrel/app-data/bitcoin/data/bitcoin

After that add an entry into fstab and reboot to test.

~$ sudo nano /etc/fstab

/dev/disk/by-id/ssdid /home/userolder/umbrel/app-data/bitcoin/data/bitcoin ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 2

~$ sudo reboot

Then log back in and run df -h command which should list all the partitions and sizes

~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           393M  2.2M  391M   1% /run
/dev/sda1        16G  5.7G   11G  36% /
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
/dev/sda15      105M  5.3M  100M   5% /boot/efi
/dev/sdb        984G  446G  488G  48% /home/userfolder/umbrel/app-data/bitcoin/data/bitcoin
tmpfs           393M  4.0K  393M   1% /run/user/1000
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