# Moving database directory to a new partition, Ubuntu20.04 **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [May 27, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/moving-database-directory-to-a-new-partition-ubuntu20-04/3782 "2022-05-27T15:44:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bkm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bkm](https://community.stardog.com/u/bkm)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/moving-database-directory-to-a-new-partition-ubuntu20-04/3782/1 "2022-05-27T15:44:48Z")
Hi, I am running Stardog7.6.4 on a Ubuntu 20.04 machine. The binaries are located in /opt/stardog/bin and STARDOG\_HOME is set to /var/opt/stardog. I am out of space on that partition, so I want to move my databases to another partition, but keep the binaries where they are. Am I correct that this would be the way to proceed? 1. export all databases 2. shut down the server 3. Create a directory on the other partition /data/stardog 4. Copy the license key to /data/stardog 5. Change /etc/stardog.env.sh to contain export STARDOG\_HOME=/data.stardog 6. Restart the server 7. import the databases Do I need any other steps? And if something goes wrong, can I simply back out by changing STARDOG\_HOME back to /var/opt/stardog? If I don't change anything in that folder, I assume the server would be able to access the original databases? Thanks. I really need to move to the new partition but I don't want to lose my databases! ---
**Author:** ![zachary.whitley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.stardog.com/zachary.whitley/32/94_2.png) [@zachary.whitley](https://community.stardog.com/u/zachary.whitley)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/moving-database-directory-to-a-new-partition-ubuntu20-04/3782/2 "2022-05-27T16:15:57Z")
It looks good just a couple of suggestions. You can do a `server backup` / `server restore` rather than an export to make sure you capture everything. You can also simply copy the directory contents to the new location and update STARDOG\_HOME, but would still recommend a backup. You might want to verify the new location with `Stardog-admin server status`. I can see getting things pointing to somewhere other than where you though they were and then if you write to the wrong place things start getting complicated. ---
**Author:** ![bkm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bkm](https://community.stardog.com/u/bkm)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/moving-database-directory-to-a-new-partition-ubuntu20-04/3782/3 "2022-05-27T20:07:37Z")
Thanks. I didn't think it was possible to simply copy the databases over - I had tried to do something like that once and got error messages. I certainly will do the backups in any case. ---
**Author:** ![zachary.whitley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.stardog.com/zachary.whitley/32/94_2.png) [@zachary.whitley](https://community.stardog.com/u/zachary.whitley)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/moving-database-directory-to-a-new-partition-ubuntu20-04/3782/4 "2022-05-27T20:31:19Z")
It should be ok as long as you shutdown the server first and take care to preserve the permissions like using the `-p` flag if using `cp`. Someone also suggested that you can use `rsync` as well. ---
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