Regarding mounting

[nandam]

if we are changing the mount point of a FS from one to another what are all the different ways to achieve it?
for eg. FS XYZ is mounted on root. but since its NOT a best practice to have more FS on root, I am creating a new mount point and moving the XYZ to it.

what are all the possible/available ways?

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

nandam,

Do you just want to change the mount point location on the local server, or we are talking about mount points in a NFS server?

Regards,

Jaime.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

You can simply unmount your old filesystem and copy from its data to a new one. Modify your 'etc/fstab' to reflect the new mountpoint and mount the filesystem on that new mountpoint.

You can use 'cpio' to perform the data copy, thusly:

# cd srcdir && find . -depth -print | cpio -pudlmv dstdir

Regards!

...JRF...

[DCE]

if you want to change where a local FS is mounted:

One way is to
*Create the new mount point name with mkdir
*Unmount the FS to be relocated
*modify /etc/fstab (vi) and change the mount point for the lvol to the new location
*mount the fs to the new mount point (mount -a)

The FS needs to be quiet, i.e. no one logged in for this to work

[MarkSyder]

Create a new filesystem, e.g. /new_fs
cd /old_fs
find . -xdev -depth -print|cpio -pmd /new_fs

cd /etc
cp fstab fstab.old
vi fstab

Swap /old_fs with /new_fs

Reboot the server. Your "old" filesystem will now be in the new place.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[nandam]

Just move on local only.