Re: [Tracker] Tracker: Low Disk Space

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 10:21 -0700, Jin Suh wrote:
> Hello Tracker experts,
>
> I built a custom Linux boot cd for the tracker. When I ran the trakerd-0.6.4 on /mnt/hd (mounted 
> partition), I ran out of the $HOME disk space (tmpfs). 
>
> 1) Is there any way I can setup my own index cache directory instead of using the default one 
> (~/.cache/tracker)? So I can use my thumb drive to contain all data like /mnt/thumb/cache/tracker and 
> /mnt/thumb/local/share/tracker. 

symlink it in if you like


> 2) Should I modify the src code to do this?
>
> 3) Soon I will upgrade the tracker to 0.6.6 or to the main trunk. Will this new version handle the above 
> modification?

unlikely due to security reasons of housing it outside of your protected
home directory 

a networked tracker might of course have that facility

jamie