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Dedicated Drive, Partition, or Network Share
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One of the first steps the end user must perform after installing ZoneMinder is to dedicate an entire partition, drive, or network share for ZoneMinder's event storage.
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The reason being, ZoneMinder will, by design, fill up your hard disk, and you don't want to do that to your root volume!
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The following steps apply to ZoneMinder 1.31 or newer, running on a typical Linux system, which uses systemd.
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If you are using an older version of ZoneMinder, please follow the legacy steps in the `ZoneMinder Wiki <https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Using_a_dedicated_Hard_Drive>`_.
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**Step 1:** Stop ZoneMinder
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sudo systemctl stop zoneminder
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**Step 2:** Mount your dedicated drive, partition, or network share to the local filesystem in any folder of your choosing.
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We recommend you use systemd to manage the mount points.
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Instructions on how to accomplish this can be found `here <https://zoneminder.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html>`__ and `here <https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Common_Issues_with_Zoneminder_Installation_on_Ubuntu#Use_Systemd_to_Mount_Internal_Drive_or_NAS>`__.
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Note that bind mounting ZoneMinder's images folder is optional. Newer version of ZoneMinder write very little, if anything, to the images folder.
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Verify the dedicated drive, partition, or network share is successfully mounted before proceeding to the next step.
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**Step 3:** Set the owner and group to that of the web server user account. Debian based distros typically use "www-data" as the web server user account while many rpm based distros use "apache".
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sudo chown -R apache:apache /path/to/your/zoneminder/events/folder
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sudo chown -R apache:apache /path/to/your/zoneminder/images/folder
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Recall from the previous step, the images folder is optional.
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**Step 4:** Create a config file under /etc/zm/conf.d using your favorite text editor. Name the file anything you want just as long as it ends in ".conf".
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Add the following content to the file and save your changes:
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ZM_DIR_EVENTS=/full/path/to/the/events/folder
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ZM_DIR_IMAGES=/full/path/to/the/images/folder
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**Step 5:** Start ZoneMinder and inspect the ZoneMinder log files for errors.
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sudo systemctl start zoneminder
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