Create symlink of magento 1 “media” folder

Question

I need to create a symlink of my magento1 "media" folder on another disk of my server because I need to make space on current disk. In which way can I do this?

Answer 1

For a symbolic link you will need first to attach the other disk. After that copy the media folder to the new disk:

cp -r /path/to/media /mnt/new/drive

Rename media folder:

mv /path/to/media /path/to/oldmedia

Create symlink to new destination

ln -s /mnt/new/drive/media /path/to/media

Check that everything is fine, add some new pictures, verify they are created at new destination. Then delete old media folder

rm -rf /path/to/oldmedia