On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 13:29, Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@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@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@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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