Turn existing directory into a filesystem

[Coolmar]

Hi,

I want to turn the directory /var/opt/ignite/clients into its own filesystem. I can create a /var/opt/ignite/clients filesystem, but will that clobber the existing directory? Not that it matters really, because I have nothing in "clients" just yet.

[Coolmar]

Created /ignite filesystem and made a soft link from /var/opt/ignite/clinets to /ignite/clients

[Dennis Handly]

Well you have to create a mount point for your new filesystem, and that should be empty, unless you want to hide some files. :-)

The one way to see those files is to mount the original path from another system and you can tunnel under to the mount point.

(I used that once because the mount point had the wrong permissions and I exported it as root so the other machine could fix it.)