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On 09/16/2011 10:39 AM, Edier Zapata wrote:
> Good morning,
>  Is there a way to make Nova to store instances not in /var/lib but in
> another folder of the filesystem?

Yes. First I changed all directives in the conf file:

- --instances_path=/local/nova/instances


moved /var/lib/nova to /local/nova

restarted all the services.

If you have glance, you also need to do the same.


>  This is because my /var was defined only to store logs, so it's not
> big enough and actually is near full in all the nodes; maybe I can
> redirect Nova to store the instances for example in
> /home/nova/instances? If nova don't have a configuration directive to
> make this, a Symbolic link works?


sym link might work but I haven't tried it.


- --sharif
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