Please advise on the best approach to specify an external directory folder for use by springboot application to store business data (such as images).  The following attempt to do so far did not work:  By adding it to the User Provided JAVA_OPTS Environment Variable (using the syntax:  -cp /myfoo ).  This did not work because PCF start command adds an additional -cp entry with the $PWD present working directory that appears to override (and mask) the user provided value of /myfoo.