Another SSD-related question about health and storage options

[dkong]

Thx a lot. I will make another symlink.

Would you mind doing an explanation of this process of symlinking Proxmox directories to another storage target? I have tried to Google it a bit but I only find real painful scenario's where you have to adjust fstab in single user mode to make sure running daemons don't get screwed up.

As a general addition to this thread, I have now installed Proxmox 5.2 on Kingston consumer SSD's and not seeing quick wear on it with the default settings.

 

[guletz]

Hi,

fstab has nothing to do with any kind of symlinks.

 

[dkong]

Hi,

fstab has nothing to do with any kind of symlinks.

Of course, there are multiple ways to solve the problem. So how do you do the symlink? Let's say I want to have /tmp on another storage device, would I go about it like this?

1. Create new /tmp location on new storage
2. Move data from old /tmp location to new location
3. Remove old /tmp directory
4. Create symlink to new location

 

[guletz]

Of course, there are multiple ways to solve the problem. So how do you do the symlink? Let's say I want to have /tmp on another storage device, would I go about it like this?

1. Create new /tmp location on new storage
2. Move data from old /tmp location to new location
3. Remove old /tmp directory
4. Create symlink to new location

2. copy old /tmp to new location
3. rename old /tmp to /tmp.old
4. create the symlink
5. reboot

I also create symlinks for /var/log, /var/lib/where-the-rrd-cache-it-is. I also create a swap somewhere in zfs pool.

 

[dkong]

Thank you guletz, I will try this out.