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Chapter 7. Adding additional storage to your instance

Some cloud instances do not have enough storage for the RHEL AI end-to-end workflow in the default disk. You can add a directory that holds additional data.

By default RHEL AI holds configuration data in the $HOME directory. You can change this default to a different directory for holding InstructLab data.

Prerequisites

  • You have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI instance
  • You added an extra storage disk to your instance

Procedure

  1. You can configure the ILAB_HOME environment variable by writing it to the $HOME/.bash_profile file by running the following commands: 

    $ echo 'export ILAB_HOME=/mnt' >> $HOME/.bash_profile
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  2. You can make that change effective by reloading the $HOME/.bash_profile file with the following command: 

    $ source $HOME/.bash_profile
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  3. You then need to create a containers directory with the following command: 

    $ mkdir /mnt/.config/containers
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  4. Copy over the storage.conf file to the containers directory with the following command: 

    $ cp /etc/skel/.config/containers/storage.conf /mnt/.config/containers/
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