How to rename an existing/working partition?

[Scot L. Harris]

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.