Renaming a mount point
Chris
racerx at makeworld.com
Sun Mar 25 01:42:19 UTC 2007
Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>> Question -
>>
>> Now that I added a new drive, mounted as /mp3 - what if I wish to
>> rename the mount point to something like /music (being that no mp3
>> really live there - nothing but oggs really).
>
> Cool.
>
>> How do I go about that without loosing data?
>
> 1. sudo mkdir /music
> 2. sudo umount /mp3
> 3. sudoedit /etc/fstab
>
> Replace mp3 with music
> 4. sudo mount /music
>
> Now, this may confuse up your music library metadata (e.g. ratings), but
> you won't lose anything on the drive.
>
> For more information, try man mount, man umount, man fstab .
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
>
Ahh - once again Matt - you have come through! Thanks mate. You have no
idea how much hep you have been to me - thank you!
--
Best regards,
Chris
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