{"id":1727,"date":"2017-12-25T08:48:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T08:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2017-12-27T04:19:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T04:19:32","slug":"symlink-mist-data-directory-to-save-52gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/25\/symlink-mist-data-directory-to-save-52gb\/","title":{"rendered":"Symlink Mist data directory to save 52Gb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you download Mist and try to sync the Ethereum blockchain, your Ethereum folder will be in the following location:<\/p>\n<p>Mac: ~\/Library\/Ethereum<br \/>\nLinux: ~\/.ethereum<br \/>\nWindows: %APPDATA%\/Ethereum<\/p>\n<p>To save space, you can put your chaindata folder in another location such as a removable USB drive.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-25-at-9.39.21-PM-300x292.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-25-at-9.39.21-PM-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-25-at-9.39.21-PM.png 416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Above you can see my chaindata folder is actually a symbolic link. To create a symbolic link run this command:<\/p>\n<pre>&gt; ln -s \/Volumes\/myUSBdrive\/Ethereum\/chaindata ~\/Library\/Ethereum\/chaindata<\/pre>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve done is I&#8217;ve put my 39Gb chaindata folder on a thumb drive and I&#8217;m linking to it. The reason why it&#8217;s 8.43Gb is because I haven&#8217;t removed test net yet. Testnet is 8.24Gb. Once this is removed, even more space will be saved.<\/p>\n<p>The other option is to create a symbolic link to the entire Ethereum folder but this results in an error where Mist is looking for a geth.ipc file which is created upon startup but it can&#8217;t because of the symbolic link. This is the easiest and quickest way to have the data directory located in a non default location.<\/p>\n<p>This is different to bitcoin-qt where the location can be specified in the configuration file.<\/p>\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"https:\/\/ethereum.stackexchange.com\/questions\/3307\/in-mist-browser-how-can-i-move-the-data-blockchain-to-another-drive-on-mac-osx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ethereum.stackexchange.com\/questions\/3307\/in-mist-browser-how-can-i-move-the-data-blockchain-to-another-drive-on-mac-osx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you download Mist and try to sync the Ethereum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethereum"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ethereum300.jpg",300,195,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ethereum300-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ethereum300-300x195.jpg",300,195,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ethereum300.jpg",300,195,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ethereum300.jpg",300,195,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ethereum300.jpg",300,195,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ethereum300.jpg",300,195,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ethereum300.jpg",300,195,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ethereum300.jpg",300,195,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ethereum300.jpg",300,195,false]},"author_info":{"info":["seandotau"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/category\/ethereum\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Ethereum<\/a>","tag_info":"Ethereum","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}