How can I split blockchain data over two hard drives? My node has two SSDs and the first one is filling up. The second one still has ~230GB available and I would like to move old blockchain data over there to free up an equivalent amount on the first drive.
How can I do that? The node is running on an old Win7 machine.
You can either move a whole folder to you other disk and link it back to your original location with soft links, or move the files and make hard links for all of them.
The windows command for doing this is mklink. It's like creating shortcuts to files in other locations/drives.
I've only tested creating soft links (I moved index folders from HDD to SDD for speed) and I can confirm it works. I think hard links should work as well.
In your case, moving the folders wouldn't solve your issue, since the data would still be on only one drive. So the solution would be to move the large files to your &quot;empty&quot; disk and make hard links for all those files.