Moving a Mount Point

To change the directory in which a file system is mounted, use the following command:

mount --move old_directory new_directory

See Example 2.8, "Moving an Existing NFS Mount Point" for an example usage.

Example 2.8. Moving an Existing NFS Mount Point

Imagine that you have an NFS storage that contains user directories. Assuming that this storage is already mounted in /mnt/userdirs/, as root, you can move this mount point to /home by using the following command:

~]# mount --move /mnt/userdirs /home

To verify the mount point has been moved, list the content of both directories:

~]# ls /mnt/userdirs
~]# ls /home
jill  joe