How to move only "blocks" and "chainstate" folders on an external USB hard-drive while running Bitcoin Client on connected laptop with Ubuntu?

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I have experience with secure-copy and secure-download but how do I move only the Bitcoin Client "blocks" and "chainstate" folders within the home directory of Ubuntu 18.04 to an external USB hard-drive while running the Bitcoin Client on the connected laptop with limited storage on board? I'd sincerely appreciate the best-practice or recommended approach for hosting a Bitcoin full-node on a laptop with an external USB hard-drive since I am also attempting to run Blockstream and FIBRE on this environment- thank you

alexanderjsingleton

Posted 2019-09-27T16:02:35.457

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The easiest way to do this according to the Bitcoin Core Wiki is to append the datadir option after running bitcoind to launch the client according to the following syntax:

  • bitcoind -datadir=/media/myusername/backup/.bitcoin

example provided thusly:

  • bitcoind -datadir=/media/alexanderjsingleton/SEAGATE/.bitcoin

Also, don't forget to mount the external USB hard-drive by using the ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ option by command line or by GUI-method.

alexanderjsingleton

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