Changing an NFS mount and path...

[Ian Monroe]

The Advanced File Tracking should transition the statistics automatically.

Ian

On Nov 30, 2007 6:36 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I knew this day would come but I've been putting it off!!
>
> A long time ago on my home server I had separate partitions for
> /mnt/media (where I keep my movies and music) and /home (where I keep my
> home). Following a RAID rebuild some time ago (year or so) I just put
> all the space into /home as it just seemed to make more sense and would
> make moving files around faster etc.
>
> As I had several apps configured for the /mnt/media path (myth, amarok
> etc.) I just did a bind mount of /home/media to /mnt/media.
>
> OK, so "where's the NFS reference" I hear you all scream in
> anticipation.. Well, I NFS export both /home and /mnt/media to my
> network and I run amarok on my laptop. This has worked fine for ages,
> but I recently upgraded my server and the whole bind mount thing has
> confused it slightly! It detects that /mnt/media and /home are actually
> part of the same filesystem and when I mount /home or /mnt/media it
> displays a warning saying that they have the same filehandle and it
> arbitrarily picks the first one. This means that on my client both /home
> and /mnt/media both look like /mnt/media. This is clearly (IMO) a
> problem/bug with the NFS server but that aside I should really use this
> opportunity to tidy things up and get my paths right.
>
> So I want to move my NFS path in Amarok but preserve the stats/ratings etc.
>
> Looking in the db I can change the mount path in the devices table but
> the real problem is that I'm changing how it's mounted.
>
> Previously:
> [/mnt/media]/audio/file.ogg
> Now:
> [/home]/media/audio/file.ogg
>
> As you can see the mount point has changed but so has the path.
>
> Is there any way to update the path in the db nicely or will I just have
> to do it all manually and find all tables that have a deviceid +
> filename and update them accordingly?
>
> Long winded way of asking quite a simple question!!
>
> Col
>
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