How to move podman images from one location to another ?

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
• podman

How to migrate the images from one path to another?

• podman images are store in directory specified by graphRoot and can be found for a specific user by running podman info | grep graphRoot
• This path can be changed based on the requirement. How to change graphRoot for a user
• However, just changing the path doesn't migrate the image to the newly assigned graphRoot.
• One can follow the below steps to migrate the images from one path to another path within the host
  • Save the images in the old-graphRoot path using podman save
  • Stop and remove the containers and remove all the images
  • Change the configuration as described in the above steps and verify that the graphroot has changed by running podman info | grep graphRoot
  • Load back the images using podman load and rerun the containers. podman will now pick up the images from the newer location