How to rename an existing/working partition?
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Fri Apr 21 19:56:37 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:46 -0600, Jim Christiansen wrote:
> I have sort of a regular method upgrading my Redhat/FC servers by using two
> drives and multiple partitions. My usual habit for upgrading systems is to
> recable my old and working master to slave and the old slave to master and
> at install not to reformate the old master- I just relabel it as
> /old-slash.
>
> After everything settles down I clear off the /old-slash in stages and then
> write an rsync script to take my new homes across at midnight everyday...
>
> I'm getting tired of seeing /old-slash show up in the root of my file
> system.
>
> I'm using FC5 now and want to rename /old-slash to something less boring :-)
> - maybe /backup or maybe /rsync-drive...
>
> Does anyone know how to do this?? I've searched around but not found
> anything clear yet.
umount the old file system. Edit /etc/fstab to change the mount point.
Create the new mount point. mount the drive using the new mount point
name.
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