Personally, I would make use of a bind mount[1] rather than trying to relocate..
A bind mount is just like a symlink, with the exception of AppArmor (and I presume SELinux) will handle it "correctly".. Thanks, Kiall [1]: http://docs.1h.com/Bind_mounts On 15/05/13 14:02, Daniel Ellison wrote: On May 15, 2013, at 8:52 AM, Robert van Leeuwen <robert.vanleeu...@spilgames.com><mailto:robert.vanleeu...@spilgames.com> wrote: I would like to move all instances into /home/storage/nova/instances. The following value in nova.conf specifies where the images are located: state_path Ah, ok! That's the info I was looking for. So the entire /var/lib/nova directory needs to be relocated, not just /var/lib/nova/instances. Got it. Of course, I would shut down all instances and copy everything to the new location. But how do I convince Nova >that things have changed? Also, the various libvirt.xml files have references to /var/lib/nova/instances. Is it a >manual process to change these references? Or is there some magical migration command that would fix everything >for me? :) I don't think there is a tool for that but a bash one-liner should be able to search and replace this in the XML files :) This is true. And it's exactly what I'll do. :) Thanks for your help! Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net<mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
