can sparkbox be installed into another file location?

Posted by ridley

just downloaded sparkbox for the first time and everything looks to work great! i however have a small ssd for my linux setup but have configured a HDD stack with raid 1 btrfs, is there any way i can change the download location for qbit and jellyfin or even just have the sparkbox installed straight to my stack?

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Chris wrote:

Both are possible, and welcome aboard! The easy win for your small SSD is to point SparkBox's Media Root at a folder on your HDD stack — that's where qBittorrent keeps its downloads and Jellyfin keeps its movies and TV, so all the heavy data lands on the big drive while the app itself (a few GB) stays on the SSD. Set it in the dashboard under Settings → Media → Media Root, or run sudo sparkbox set-env MEDIAROOT /path/on/your/stack/media then sudo sparkbox up. If you'd rather move the whole install too, re-run the installer with --install-dir /path/on/your/stack — since you're fresh with no data yet, that's clean and painless.