topic Where are files stored, on the file system? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/where-are-files-stored-on-the-file-system/m-p/96202#M66076 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>So, I'm installing/about to install Alfresco onto a Linux box (Ubuntu).&nbsp; I have a huge RAID array to be used for Alfresco, but the liveCD I have here doesn't support RAID5 on the onboard RAID controller.&nbsp; So I'll use software RAID.&nbsp; No, it's nowhere near as good, but it'll get what we need.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So I can create the software raid partition without any issues.&nbsp; But I am not sure where I should mount it.&nbsp; All the database stuff is stored in the database, which exists under /var/ I assume.&nbsp; But will the files that people store on the server go here as well?&nbsp; Do they go into the database, or just into some other directory?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Basically, where should I mount my huge partition?&nbsp; At the moment I'm leaning towards /opt, and then installing Alfresco under /opt as well.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:42:20 GMT wpettersson 2007-08-03T06:42:20Z Where are files stored, on the file system? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/where-are-files-stored-on-the-file-system/m-p/96202#M66076 So, I'm installing/about to install Alfresco onto a Linux box (Ubuntu).&nbsp; I have a huge RAID array to be used for Alfresco, but the liveCD I have here doesn't support RAID5 on the onboard RAID controller.&nbsp; So I'll use software RAID.&nbsp; No, it's nowhere near as good, but it'll get what we need.So I can Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:42:20 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/where-are-files-stored-on-the-file-system/m-p/96202#M66076 wpettersson 2007-08-03T06:42:20Z Re: Where are files stored, on the file system? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/where-are-files-stored-on-the-file-system/m-p/96203#M66077 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Content (i.e. files) are stored seperately from the database (which holds all the meta-data).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can configure which folder in the file system to store the content.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Take a look at config/alfresco/repository.properties - property dir.root</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:56:27 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/where-are-files-stored-on-the-file-system/m-p/96203#M66077 davidc 2007-08-03T09:56:27Z