Environment Variables help

InfluxDB 2
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Hello, I am just resetting up InfluxDB OSS V2 again as had issues - I have updated config.toml to point to a location that has more drivespace to run from - I am struggling to understand the setting of the below environment paths
The location i have chosen and updated within config.toml is
bolt-path = “/data/influxdb/influxd.bolt”
engine-path = “/data/influxdb/engine”

So for the above would I just run all 3 of these? am a little confused
influxd --bolt-path=~/data/influxdb/influxd.bolt
export INFLUXD_BOLT_PATH=~/data/influxdb/influxd.bolt
bolt-path = “/data/influxdb/influxd.bolt”
Same with the below?

influxd --engine-path=~/data/influxdb/engine
export INFLUXD_ENGINE_PATH=~/data/influxdb/engine
engine-path = “/data/influxdb/engine”
I am currently underway with this so any help appreciated (edited)

2

Ok so reading through it again:

I am thinking that the “Configuration” can just be set in config.toml
As I have not started influx up yet there are no environment variables set, so do i still run the 2x above for both bolt path and engine?

3

Or will it populate all the environment variables when on startup now that the config.toml has been updated?

4

You can use any one of the 3 options to set the engine and bolt paths, you don’t need to use all of them

5

Something also to note in the configuration documentation is configuration precedence.
If you do use all three methods, the settings the config file are honored last.