On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 13:29, Roger Heflin <rogerhef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> cd /home/bobg//Public/nfs4exports/home and do a "mv . ../../" I don't think this will work (maybe depending on the shell program) as the current working directory is in use. Bob had a problem but didn't say what went wrong (the example below uses zsh). > and everything in /home/bobg//Public/nfs4exports/home will be moved > to /home/bobg/Public (up 2 directories). This will be fast and only > move the file headers since both locations are on the same > LV/mountpoint. > Bob: You can convince yourself that the above works by working thru an example. % cd /tmp % mkdir -p a/b/c $ cd a/b/c $ touch d $ ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r--. 1 u u 0 Sep 16 16:20 d $ mv . ../../ mv: cannot move '.' to '../../.': Device or resource busy % cd - /tmp % cd a % mv b/c . % ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x. 2 u u 40 Sep 16 16:38 b drwxr-xr-x. 2 u u 60 Sep 16 16:20 c % ls -l c total 0 -rw-r--r--. 1 u u 0 Sep 16 16:20 d % ls -l b total 0 It ia now safe remove "b" > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:07 AM Bob Goodwin <bobgood...@fastmail.us> > wrote: > > > > > > > > On 2020-09-15 19:59, George N. White III wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 17:10, Bob Goodwin <bobgood...@fastmail.us > > > <mailto:bobgood...@fastmail.us>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2020-09-15 06:58, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > > > > Well, never trusting the "mv" command, I decided to do some > > > experimenting and did: > > > > > > [root@nfs bobg]# mv /nfs4exports /home/bobg/Public > > > > > > expecting to move my stored data into "Public" and it did that but > > > the > > > result is not quite what I thought it would be now this is where > > > it is: > > > > > > /home/bobg/Public/nfs4exports/home > > > > > > > > > More direct would have been "# mv /nfs4exports/home > > > /home/bobg/Public", but > > > the hard work of copying data to the big drive has been done. You > > > should > > > verify that your root partition has gained the same amount of space > > > that you > > > lost on the "/home" partition. As others have already mentioned, it > > > should be a trivial > > > operation to move the contents of "/home/bobg/Public/nfs4exports/home" > > > to one of the > > > parent directories because no files need to copied, just updating some > > > directories. > > ° > > /I should have checked df -h before: > > > > /[root@nfs bobg]# df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > devtmpfs 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /dev > > tmpfs 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /dev/shm > > tmpfs 1.8G 1.3M 1.8G 1% /run > > /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-root 69G 6.9G 58G 11% / > > tmpfs 1.8G 8.0K 1.8G 1% /tmp > > /dev/sda2 976M 254M 655M 28% /boot > > /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-home 3.6T 65G 3.3T 2% /home > > tmpfs 360M 8.0K 360M 1% > /run/user/987 > > tmpfs 360M 4.0K 360M 1% > > /run/user/1000 > > > > It shows 65GB removed from "/" and saved to > > "/home/bobg//Public/nfs4exports/home" which contains the saved files. > > It's a long file name but I guess I should just export that? > > > > Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA > > FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- George N. White III
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