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I have bitcoin-qt installed on my Ubuntu box which has an SSD as the main OS drive.

I understand that bitcoin-qt is a full client/node and uses a lot of disk activity, which is why I want it off my expensive SSD and want it on my cheaper HDD. How do I move the client so all the node checking work it does which is disk intensive is done on the secondary HDD instead of the primary SSD?

I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed.

UPDATE:

I just edited the file:

/usr/share/applications$ sudo gedit bitcoin-qt.desktop

and changed:

Exec=/usr/bin/bitcoin-qt %u

to

Exec=/usr/bin/bitcoin-qt -datadir=/new_location/.bitcoin %u

I have just tried loading bitcoin-qt and it currently says Rescanning.

Have I made the changes correctly? It's been scanning for 5 minutes now...

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  • That looks correct. Bitcoin-Qt will verify blocks when it starts and this can take several minutes. The rescan message says it is looking for missing transactions, which I don't think it normally does unless you import a new private key. – ScripterRon Dec 8 '13 at 22:03
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Use the -datadir option to specify a new location for the bitcoin data directory. Copy the existing bitcoin data directory to the new location and then restart bitcoin-qt. Check here for information on locating the default data directory.

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  • Please see update to original question. – oshirowanen Dec 8 '13 at 21:53
  • Took about 12 hours to complete and I had to reinstall bitcoin-qt in the end to get it all to work again... – oshirowanen Dec 9 '13 at 19:21

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