moving a directory to its own file system

[Waqar Razi]

We have a situation to move a directory off the root file system (/abc) to its own file system. We are using tar to backup that directory and then after creating the file system, restore from tar backup to the new file system.

Can we use vfs snapshot for this scenario or some thing better than this approach.

Thanks in advance.

[Nido]

Hello Waqar,

Why not use `cp -rp /abc /dest`

Once you copied all the files, remove it from the source.

There are other options available (like using find+cpio or tar )but this one is the easiest.

Thanks,

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Wagar:

You could snapshot the filesystem to obtain a "static" view of its contents.

Then:

# cd srcdir && pax -w . | ( cd dstdir && pax -r -pe )

this will recursively copy from the 'srcdir' to the 'dstdir'directory while preserving permissions and ownerships. Sparse files will be preserved as sparse too.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Tingli]

# mkdir /dest
# cd /abc
# mv * /dest/
# cd ../
# rmdir /abc
# mv dest abc

[Viktor Balogh]

i think Waqar would save the snapshot directly to the target FS... could work, why not?