it should have been mv * ../../ I had a brain fart.
Too busy at work trying to figure out why an updated kernel has
userspace issues (bash stack smash crash/abort in udevd/late
initramfs, a failure to boot), but the old kernel with the exact same
userspace is fine.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 3:00 PM George N. White III <gnwiii(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 13:29, Roger Heflin <rogerheflin(a)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 <bobgoodwin(a)fastmail.us>
wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2020-09-15 19:59, George N. White III wrote:
>> > > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 17:10, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin(a)fastmail.us
>> > > <mailto:bobgoodwin@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
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