Coda File System

Re: Moving files in /vicepa to a new disk

From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:23:54 -0400
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:12:38AM -0400, Douglas C. MacKenzie wrote:
> I want to move my /vicepa partition to a faster disk drive.
> I'm planning to turn off the coda server, use tar to copy the files
> from the old partition to the new partition, and then change
> fstab to map the new partition back to /vicepa.  BTW, the
> new partition is larger than the old one, but I'm moving it
> to gain some speed, not the extra size.
> 
> Will that work?

I _think_ it should work, i.e. we shouldn't be depending on inode
numbers or anything except for the pathnames leading up to the files and
the filesizes to be correct.

Jan
Received on 2000-10-05 10:25:39