System Administrators Toolkit: Migrating and moving UNIX filesystems

I’ve had more than one occasion when I’ve had to move a live filesystem to a new partition or new disk, whether its because I’m short on space on the original partition or through disk failure. I’ve put put my experience of that into my latest developerWorks article on how to move and migrate filesystems.

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Thursday, July 6th, 2006 Articles, IBM DeveloperWorks, UNIX

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[...] As an extension of the original filesystem piece, I’ve taken a closer look at the methods available for simply moving around directory trees on the Unix filesystem, including across a network. Occasionally, you need to copy around an entire UNIX directory tree, either between areas on the same system or between different systems. There are many different methods of achieving this, but not all preserve the right amount of information or are compatible across different systems. This article discusses the various options available for UNIX and how best to make them work. [...]