trick the server.

[Rich Teer]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> [email]tru64dog@yahoo.com[/email] (Doggy) writes in comp.unix.solaris:
> |In my /export directory I have user directories but that partition is
> |filling up. I added some space to the server and mounted it on /space
> |directory. My objective is to move the contents of the export
> |directory to the /space directory but I want my users to continue to
> |deposit their files in /export directory but trick it into going to
> |the /space/export directory. So in reality, when they cd into /export
> |and insert files in it, its really going to /space/export where the
> |extra space is. How should I do such a task? Can someone help me out,
> |please?
>
> Sounds way too complicated - why not just move everything currently in
> /export to /space, then umount /space and remount it as /export ?

An alternative would be to set up the automounter (as intended out
of the box). That way, it doesn't matter where users' directories
really are, they all appear to be under /home.

To the OP: the automounter is Good; use it.

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[sharona]

[email]tru64dog@yahoo.com[/email] (Doggy) wrote in message news:<18239c3a.0307211143.7ddb5fe7@posting.google. com>...

> Solaris 8, sparc
>
> In my /export directory I have user directories but that partition is
> filling up. I added some space to the server and mounted it on /space
> directory. My objective is to move the contents of the export
> directory to the /space directory but I want my users to continue to
> deposit their files in /export directory but trick it into going to
> the /space/export directory. So in reality, when they cd into /export
> and insert files in it, its really going to /space/export where the
> extra space is. How should I do such a task? Can someone help me out,
> please?
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 2058567 1711758 285052 86% /
> /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
> fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
> mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
> swap 2790768 24 2790744 1% /var/run
> swap 2791072 328 2790744 1% /tmp
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 13253887 11862914 1258435 91% /local
> /vol/dev/dsk/c0t6d0/solaris_64050
> 36420 36420 0 100%
> /cdrom/solaris_64050
> /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s6 309532344 270528 306166493 1% /space

Here's what I would do; cd to /export then run this command

tar cvf - * | (cd /space ; tar xvf - ) & when it's done check the
sizes of both filesystems to make sure everything was tarred over.
then umount /export and /space change the /etc/vfstab entries for
/space to now be /export call the old /export something else and mount
/export. done.

Sharona