Install RKE2 in /opt instead of /var/lib

[athulg93]

How do i deploy RKE2 such that it has nothing to do with /var/lib or any other the other system partitions..
I would like to have RKE2 running only on a specified partition that is /opt

Context:
we have 2 drives on our systems
SDA for the OS: 300 gb or so
SDB (/opt is mounted fully on SDB) for the product: Above 1 TB

I want to ensure that RKE2 and the product layer above it gets installed fully on SDB only

[brandond]

https://docs.rke2.io/reference/server_config#common

data-dir	Folder to hold state	"/var/lib/rancher/rke2"

[athulg93]

Hey,
With this we were able to move the content of the RKE2 to the folder in /opt.
But there are containers are still coming up in /var/lib

[brandond]

You screenshot is broken. Do you perhaps have some pods that are hardcoded to use that path?

[athulg93]

Hey,
So we took the easy way out and decided to just mount the directory /var/lib onto SDB instead of trying all this.. it seems to work for us