CentOS - Jun 2017 - Urgent: Need to change the location of a directory tree

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 ??, 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 at noa.gr>
wrote:
> On 1/6/2017 6:06 ??, 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,
>
> Nick
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