<p>I have a laptop computer with 2 solid state internal 1000 GB hard drives. I have the operating system installed on drive 1 and I have the secondary drive formatted (ext4 file system), partitioned and mounted to /media/valdy/Bitcoin.</p>
<p>I can navigate to that location via the terminal and via files GUI.</p>
<p>I have installed bitcoin core via Unbuntu Software GUI.</p>
<p>I run bitcoin core GUI and select the option to &quot;use a custom data directory&quot;. I try to navigate to /media/valdy/Bitcoin and i can't. It does not see the user folder &quot;valdy&quot; inside the media folder. I can type the path in and it gives me the correct available disk space for the drive. But when i hit enter i get the following error &quot;Error: Specified data directory &quot;/media/valdy/Bitcoin/bitcoin-core/common/.bitcoin&quot; cannot be created.</p>
<p>Please advise how i can go about putting the data directory on a separate hard rive that i want to dedicate to all things bitcoin-core.</p>

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2023-10-08T10:16:58.760Z
Have you checked permissions of all elements of the path? What is the EUID of the Bitcoin-qt process?
RedGrittyBrick
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2024-08-15T19:03:12.643Z
I know its a lite late but this fixed for me: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1328448/official-bitcoin-client-fails-to-start-with-error-initializing-settings-failed
Mario
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Bitcoin Core Unbuntu Custom Data Directory Does not Navigate to Secondary Internal Hard Drive
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# Bitcoin Core Unbuntu Custom Data Directory Does not Navigate to Secondary Internal Hard Drive

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-10-08)

I have a laptop computer with 2 solid state internal 1000 GB hard drives. I have the operating system installed on drive 1 and I have the secondary drive formatted (ext4 file system), partitioned and mounted to /media/username_0/Bitcoin.

I can navigate to that location via the terminal and via files GUI.

I have installed bitcoin core via Unbuntu Software GUI.

I run bitcoin core GUI and select the option to "use a custom data directory". I try to navigate to /media/username_0/Bitcoin and i can't. It does not see the user folder "username_0" inside the media folder. I can type the path in and it gives me the correct available disk space for the drive. But when i hit enter i get the following error "Error: Specified data directory "/media/username_0/Bitcoin/bitcoin-core/common/.bitcoin" cannot be created.

Please advise how i can go about putting the data directory on a separate hard rive that i want to dedicate to all things bitcoin-core.

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, ubuntu, storage, datadir

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Have you checked permissions of all elements of the path? What is the EUID of the Bitcoin-qt process?  
> **username_2**: I know its a lite late but this fixed for me: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1328448/official-bitcoin-client-fails-to-start-with-error-initializing-settings-failed  

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