Move "Shares" between Logical Volumes

[jmo]

Hi JMO!

The backround is as follows:

- Clients which are using an existent share "Datashare1".
-> I would like to move this "Datashare1" to another Logical Volume (at another VolumeGroup with more disc space).
- Users/Clients which are mounting the share "Datashare1" should not notice any change!
-> I can do that move at night (no user online) but i can not restart the whole server/using knoppixx etc.

Hi Stefan,

now that actually does sound easy:
- make the "old" share r/o (just to make sure no one interferes with the following actions)
- create a temporary share for the new LV/path (if not available via an already defined share for some up-level directory) with write permissions
- at some client, mount both shares
- move the content from old share to new share
- change the "old share" definition to point to the new directory and re-enable r/w

Done. Oh, and YMMV

Regards,
Jens