Hi,
I am running CentOS 7 (fully updated) on a VM. This has a mounted nfs share (via fstab) (which mounts a remote storage system) on which we have created the home directories of 2 users
Here are the home directories:
/mynfsmount | |--/user1 |--/user1
We want to move this whole branch from the mounted NFS share to the local disk.
What is the way to do so?
Would it be enough to create a "mirror" branch on the local disk, say:
/mynfsmount2 | |--/user1 |--/user1
(which is no more an nfsmount, despite the name), then remove the mount from fstab and the initial mount point /scimount and finally rename /scimount2 to /scimount ?
Does it sound OK? Will we need to modify any other system info so that the above homes work correctly at their new location?
Thanks a lot, Nick
On 1/6/2017 6:06 μμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote:
...then remove the mount from fstab and the initial mount point /scimount and finally rename /scimount2 to /scimount ?
Correction:
...then remove the mount from fstab and the initial mount point /mynfsmount and finally rename /mynfsmount2 to /mynfsmount ?
Sorry for the confusion. (I changed the directory names while editing the mail, but I failed to change them all.)
Looking forward to your advice.
Thanks, Nick
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Nikolaos Milas nmilas@noa.gr wrote:
On 1/6/2017 6:06 μμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote:
...then remove the mount from fstab and the initial mount point /scimount and finally rename /scimount2 to /scimount ?
Correction:
...then remove the mount from fstab and the initial mount point /mynfsmount and finally rename /mynfsmount2 to /mynfsmount ?
Sorry for the confusion. (I changed the directory names while editing the mail, but I failed to change them all.)
Looking forward to your advice.
So,
1. Make sure both users are not logged in. 2. Create new mountpoints 3. Edit fstab to point to new mountpoints. 4. Edit /etc/passwd to refer to the new mountpoint for the two users 5. mount -a
Would that do the trick for you?
Thanks,
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On 1/6/2017 9:52 μμ, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
- Make sure both users are not logged in.
- Create new mountpoints
- Edit fstab to point to new mountpoints.
- Edit /etc/passwd to refer to the new mountpoint for the two users
- mount -a
Would that do the trick for you?
Thanks Mauricio,
Actually, the process you describe is the same as the one I described, with the difference that we use the same mount point for the new location (after unmounting the nfs mount), so we don't need to edit /etc/passwd.
I completed this procedure successfully.
Thanks again, Nick
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Mauricio Tavares -
Nikolaos Milas