How to install minishift in a customized directory in linux

Question

While trying to start minishift, it automatically updates the cache in the home directory.

/home/abc/.minishift/cache/.....

However I want minishift to use a custom directory instead of the default home directory as I am running out of space

Can this be achieved by changing any parameters during ./minishift start

Tried codeready containers too, but it copies in the default home directory..

FATA Failed to copy embedded 'crc_libvirt_4.5.1.crcbundle' from /opt/data/crc-linux-1.13.0-amd64/crc to /home/abc/.crc/cache/crc_libvirt_4.5.1.crcbundle: write /home/abc/.crc/cache/crc_libvirt_4.5.1.crcbundle: no space left on device 

Answer 1

I found the answer to this :

 export MINISHIFT_HOME=/opt/softwares/
 echo 'export MINISHIFT_HOME=/opt/softwares/' >> ~/.bashrc

This helped in solving the redirecting the installation from home to customized directory. Similar for crc installation as well.

Answer 2

As noted, you should use Code Ready Containers (CRC) and not minishift. This is a known issue and is being tracked here: code-ready/crc/issues/817.

The current workaround seems to be to create the directory where you want it to be and then create a symlink to ~/.crc:

mkdir -p /opt/crc
ln -s /opt/crc/ ~/.crc