Hello fellow users of Boinc,

Almost 6 months ago, I started to use Boinc on Fedora35, but did not succeeded. I have asked here how to move the data folder to a specific drive, which you can read here on Boinc Message Board. Although the replies were helpful, I could not get Boinc use a different drive on F35, besides /var/lib/boinc or /home/[$user]. Because I miss running Boinc projects, I am re-trying to have Boinc using a different drive, than these two. Therefore, I created this thread in hoping to achieve Boinc using a different drive in F36.

The following have I tried already:
1. Installing the official Fedora version of Boinc 7.16.11, but could not find a moving option
2. Installing the official Fedora version of Boinc 7.16.11, with a btrfs disk mounted under /var/lib/boinc, data ended in /home/[$user]
3. Installing the Flathub verison of Boinc 7.18.1, but could not find a moving option

There is an alternative, which I have not tries yet:

Not sure if it would work in Fedora but a /home installation is what the All-in-One version of BOINC allows that Seti users developed a few years ago. It is a throwback installation to how BOINC was originally installed. BOINC is all in one single folder, no BOINC file ever gets installed into root access only directories. You might try that and see if you like it. It is what my entire team uses as it simplifies everything. All files for all projects are owned by you the user and so never any permissions problems.
Since it can be unzipped anywhere, no reason not to unzip it on a completely different mounted drive than what holds your OS.
You can download it here.http://www.arkayn.us/lunatics/BOINC.7z
Source: See above thread of mine.

Any how, Is there another way to have Boinc 7.18.1 run on F36 with its data on a different disk, than /? Thus, does Boinc 7.18.1 an alternative way to use a different disk for its data?

Otherwise I have to find yet another way to have Boinc at an alternative disk. Like running Bottled* Boinc for Windows, and then select the preferred disk. Which is quit a work around. *Bottles is a Flathub app version of Wine.

What is it you are not happy with?
A. the paths "/var/lib/boinc" and "/home/[$user]"
B. the device (disk) the data is stored on


In case of "/home/[$user]"

Modify the systemd boinc service unit.
There's a line looking like "ExecStart=.../boinc ..."
Enter the data dir there, e.g. "ExecStart=.../boinc --dir /path/where/you/want/boinc/data/to/be/boinc_data ...."
Ensure this path has the correct access rights




In case of "/var/lib/boinc" and (B.)
1. prepare a large "boinc" disk with btrfs (you wrote you are using btrfs)
2. create 2 subvolumes on that disk: "boinc_program" and "boinc_data"
3. Rename "/var/lib/boinc" to "/var/lib/boinc1"
4. create an empty "/var/lib/boinc" as mountpoint and mount "boinc_program" there
5. copy all data from "/var/lib/boinc1" to "/var/lib/boinc" (preserve attributes)
6. create an empty "/path/where/you/want/boinc/data/to/be/boinc_data" as mountpoint and mount "boinc_data" there
7. restart BOINC

Make the new mountpoints persistent in /etc/fstab.

Thanks for that. I have only ever changed things during OS installation when giving BOINC its own hard disk mounted at /var/lib/boinc/ is trivial.