Data Disk and Directories

2. Mount the data disk on /kaia and create the kcnd directories.

** The size of Kaia blockchain data always increases. Please attach a data disk big enough to store the Mainnet chaindata. You can refer to the chaindata size via Mainnet snapshot archive.

1) Find the data disk.

$ lsblk

2) Format the data disk and mount it on /kaia.

$ sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/<data_disk>
$ sudo mkdir -p /kaia
$ sudo mount /dev/<data_disk> /kaia
$ df -h /kaia

3) Add the data disk to /etc/fstab so that it is mounted again after reboot.

$ echo "UUID=$(sudo blkid -s UUID -o value /dev/<data_disk>) /kaia xfs defaults,nofail 0 2" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
$ sudo umount /kaia && sudo mount -a && df -h /kaia

4) Create the kcnd directory, and the data and logs directories under it.

$ sudo mkdir -p /kaia/kcnd/data
$ sudo mkdir -p /kaia/kcnd/logs
$ ls -l /kaia/kcnd

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