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Dorsai Send message Joined: 7 Sep 04 Posts: 474 Credit: 4,504,838 RAC: 0 |
I can guess at the answer, but will ask the question anyway. Is there any way to move Boinc to another drive/partition without having to finish all tasks, report them, un-install & re-install specifying the new location? I ask as I recently upgraded my C drive from a HDD to a SDD. I realise it should take many decades for the read/writes from Boinc to degrade my SSD, but as Seti/Boinc do not need the access speeds a SSD gives It would make a little bit of sense to shift them to disk drive and off the solid state drive, and reduce the wear of the SSD as much as possible. Thoughts, comments and criticisms welcome. Foamy is "Lord and Master". (Oh, + some Classic WUs too.) |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
you should be able to move your Bionic Data folder to the new drive and reinstall bionic just remember to tell bionic when it installs where you put your Data folder . From what people have said resently Bionic should pick up the data folder and just continue , I'm not shore thou if you will get away with doing this if you move the files in the program folder for windows . If i was you the safest way is just to run down the Buffer untill all your units are done then just reinstall bionic and Lunatic as i see your using it to the new drive , If you move only the data folder i think you will be ok but if you try and move both the data folder and the programs files folder you may get some problems . |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14654 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
1) Shut down BOINC, checking that the science applications have shut down too. 2) UNinstall your current version of BOINC. ... this will remove the current BOINC Program folder, but leave the BOINC Data folder untouched. 3) Move the BOINC Data folder to your preferred new location. 4) Install a new copy of BOINC - the same version as before, or a new one, it doesn't matter. 5) At the folder location screen, click the 'Advanced' button. 6) Choose a location for BOINC's program files - default or your choice. 7) Fill in the location *you have already used* for BOINC's Data folder. 8) Finish installation as normal. 9) Start BOINC again. 10) Open cold beer, sit back and enjoy. |
Cliff Harding Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 1432 Credit: 110,967,840 RAC: 67 |
I can guess at the answer, but will ask the question anyway. I'm quite late to this conversation, but I'll put in my 2 cents for future reference. -- I've used SSD for both my OS and data drives for at least a couple of years now and see no reason to move BOINC back to a HDD. At my age, my 5 yr. old granddaughter will be able to use both drives for many years after I leave this grand existence. My data drive, which not only holds BOINC, but also holds all other data that resides on the system (Office, games, pictures, etc.). Because this drive hold BOINC, Lunatics also runs off of this drive, and the total bytes written is approx. 3.98TB; while the OS drive is at approx. 10.53TB. So I wouldn't worry too much about wearing out the SSD while running BOINC on it. The one HDD on this machine, used as the backup drive, is starting to show signs of going south, so when funds become available that drive will be swapped out for a SSD. OHHH, the beautiful sound of SILENCE! I don't buy computers, I build them!! |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
Because this drive hold BOINC, Lunatics also runs off of this drive, and the total bytes written is approx. 3.98TB; while the OS drive is at approx. 10.53TB. You have 3.98 terabyte of data for BOINC, for Seti? Doesn't that mean that you're about the only one wingman of all of us? And what kind of bloat OS is it that you run that uses 10.53 terabyte of space? How long does installing it take and what do you install it off of? Must have a super high compression rate if from an optical disc. Now, both 4 and 12TB SSDs are available out there, in servers mostly, but at $2,500 and $48,000 they're a bit overkill to run Seti off of. Although, if you want overkill, why not immediately go for the 44TB at $131,000? ;-) |
Wedge009 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 451 Credit: 431,396,357 RAC: 553 |
I think Cliff is referring to cumulative bytes written over the course of the SSDs' lifetime, not the space consumed by the files. Soli Deo Gloria |
Cliff Harding Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 1432 Credit: 110,967,840 RAC: 67 |
Because this drive hold BOINC, Lunatics also runs off of this drive, and the total bytes written is approx. 3.98TB; while the OS drive is at approx. 10.53TB. You've completely misunderstood my statement. The 3.98 & 10.53TB written on the individual drives are just that, the total accumulated number of bytes written on each drive since they were installed. Of the 128GB of space on the data drive BOINC currently only uses less than 2GB total. On the OS drive which is also 128GB, total used space is less then 33GB. I don't buy computers, I build them!! |
trigggl Send message Joined: 9 Jan 09 Posts: 5 Credit: 1,120,435 RAC: 0 |
I can guess at the answer, but will ask the question anyway. Don't know about Windows, but in Linux I can attach whatever partition I want to to the path of the boinc folder. As long as you move the boinc folder as a unit and change the commandline options of boinc.exe to use the new location as the home for it, you should be able to put it wherever you want. I've even transfered a boinc folder to another cruncher and had him finish some tasks for me before. Boinc uses relative path and not absolute. |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
Windows does support mounting a partition into a specific folder, but that wouldn't be the ideal way to move software from one partition to another. |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
I can guess at the answer, but will ask the question anyway. Another option windows provides is with the mklink command. Much link the directory and file linking in *nix systems. So you could move BOINC where you like & then just make a link back to the original path to keep everything everything else happy. Using something along the lines of: mklink /D C:\Program Files\BOINC D:\BOINC mklink /D C:\ProgramData\BOINC D:\BOINCData Remote paths can also be uses if you wanted to keep your BOINC stuff on a remote machine or network storage device. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
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