Foxwolfen wrote in Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:40 pm:I have been flying flightgear forever, and in my flights over the years I have covered a significant portion of the planet. To the point were my scenery folder is now 300gb in size. Over 100gb has been added over the past couple of months flying my favourite routs over Europe. I have to assume there is new data and its big.
sounds like you may have OSM enabled... it does add a lot of additional items to the scenery...
Foxwolfen wrote in Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:40 pm:I am out of SSD space. As its been sitting in my Home folder on a 500GB NVMe along with my OS. I prefer NOT to buy a new SSD simply for it, and only have a spare 250gb SSD to throw at it. Is there a way to add a second location for scenery files and still allow Terasync to do its thing?
you can tell FG that the entire terrasync directory is somewhere other than the default location on disk... i did this because on the default location on disk is in a normally hidden-by-the-OS directory and tools like TerraMaster, which i was using at the time, could not see the hidden directory... so i moved my terrasync directory to my myflightgear directory for easier access...
Foxwolfen wrote in Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:40 pm:Or can I move some of the data to the spare SSD and symlink it back to the scenery folder?
you could try that but it may be a manual labor nightmare... easiest would be to move the entire terrasync directory to some (large(r)) device and tell FG where it is now located... i use the following line in a config file i tell FG to use but it will also work from the command line as well as from the launcher's Additional Options...
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--terrasync-dir=/home/myuser/myflightgear/TSScenery
be sure you have copied/moved all of your existing terrasync to the new location
before starting FG after adding the above line to your startup process... i would probably dedicate at least a 500GB drive to terrasync... at least for now... if its size gets close to filling that, then i would certainly upgrade it to a 1TB... especially with WS3 on the horizon and the easier ability to use photo scenery, both of which could easily double or more the storage requirements of terrasync...
i do not any more... at one time i was maintaining a local copy of the entire terrasync but things beyond my control happened and prevent me from doing that any more... i'd bet, though, that one of the two or three scenery server maintainers could tell you/us what the entire structure is in numbers of directories, files, and the total size of it... those would be one of the t[h]orstens and merspieler, IIRC... my apologies for any butchering of the names... merspieler (again, sorry if i butcher the name) is the one that generates and maintains the OSM scenery stuff which is synced to the other scenery servers... i hope i got the names correct but i am still working on my 1st c0ffee...
on my old system, my terrasync was last updated Jan 2021 but it is only 91.2GiB (97933742497 bytes) in size with only 46485 directories holding only 1833939 files...
on my new system, my terrasync was last updated Sep 2022 and is only 267.5Gib (287257969066 bytes) in size with only 48611 directories holding only 2664430 files...
both of these systems have OSM enabled to provide the additional details to the scenery...
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."