I need to move my database to a different partition. So my idea was to rsync everything over to let’s say /mnt/influxdb and then create a symlink from /var/lib/influxdb to /mnt/influxdb But starting the service via systemd fails with no specific reason. Testwise I started /usr/lib/influxdb/script…

Instead of symlinks you could also try bind mounts. They usually work more reliable than symlinks as they are transparent to the application.

How to move /var/lib/influxdb to a different location?

Anaisdg June 5, 2023, 7:46pm 2

Hello @penholder,
I’m not sure. I haven’t seen a user try that before I don’t think I’m asking around.

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