Moving Bitcoin-QT's location 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...
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.