how to use secondary storage path for creating repositories in SVN

Question

we have single ubuntu server. svn is installed and we are creating SVN repos and its storing in below storage path. path1: /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root)

now we added HDD of 1TB to (/dev/mapper/vgsvnsdb-lvsvnsdb) this path.

now the challenge is how can i use this newly added storage for creating svn repos for new projects. without interrupting existing svn storage location.

path2:/dev/mapper/vgsvnsdb-lvsvnsdb

Answer 1

Assuming that the parent directory /dev/mapper/vgsvnsdb-lvsvnsdb exists and that you have sufficient permissions to modify that directory, the previous command creates a new repository in the directory /dev/mapper/vgsvnsdb-lvsvnsdb/repos,

You can explicitly choose the filesystem type using the --fs-type argument, which accepts as a parameter either fsfs or bdb . ( check for yours )

svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /dev/mapper/vgsvnsdb-lvsvnsdb/repos

User the user fro which snv was installed in first place

$ chown svn:svn -R /dev/mapper/vgsvnsdb-lvsvnsdb/repos

You might want to control permissions in “/dev/mapper/vgsvnsdb-lvsvnsdb/repos”. Make sure authz-db = authz is enabled in svnserv.conf.