change chef server install location

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I am installing chef server using cookbook chef-server from supermarket. https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/chef-server

in my wrapper cookbook I did 

    node.override['chef-server']['configuration'] = <<-EOS
install_path "/my_privateChefS/"
EOS

after I've done chef-client, I can see there is an entry in /etc/opscode/chef-server.rb

install_path "/my_privateChefS/"

However, when I ran chef-server-ctl reconfigure I did not see "/my_privateChefS/" is created, and it clearly uses default "/opt/opscode" everywhere. Do I miss something using the cookbook?

How do I change the install location of chef-server? I am changing it as worrying about the disk space as cookbook grows, should I? which chef data directory I should move if not the install directory?

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1 Answers

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I don't think you can change the folder we install things to, just the data and other active state folders. In general omnibus packages are not relocatable. Either reconfigure the data folder or mount the other FS over the existing one.