Moving /opt /usr /var into /

[Derek Whigham_1]

I need to move then contents of /opt /var /usr into / then unmount them (to be removed in the future).

I am planning to move them using cp to move them to / such that /var becomes /var2 /usr becomes /usr2 and /opt becomes /opt2

Then unmount /var /usr/ and /opt

and mv /var2 back to /var

Anybody have a better way or see's any danger i n this.

Below is our setup

lvol1 vg00 LVM HFS 304 1 /stand
lvol2 vg00 LVM Swap/Dump 16368 1
lvol3 vg00 LVM VxFS 40592 1 /
lvol4 vg00 LVM VxFS 608 1 /home
lvol5 vg00 LVM VxFS 4000 1 /opt
lvol6 vg00 LVM VxFS 208 1 /tmp
lvol7 vg00 LVM VxFS 5008 1 /usr
lvol8 vg00 LVM VxFS 2000 1 /var

[VEL_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Its better create one directory in / & use cpio command to move /opt /var /usr into /NEW_DIR . Using the cpio command, u can keep the permission & owner, group permission also.


Thanks.

[Arunvijai_4]

Booting into single user mode and doing the specified operations should be correct way.
ISL>hpux -iS

-Arun

[MarkSyder]

The first question that arises is why? The second is do you have enough room in / to do this? / is usually small.

Without more details, I would tend to suggest taking an ignite backup and rebuilding the system from that.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Derek Whigham_1]

Yeap cpio is the way to go , I have completed this successfully / was 40Gb due to a field engineer mistake.

Thanks for the prompt responses