How to move a directory to newly mounted drive?

Question

What is the easier way to move a directory to newly mounted drive

Example, if I have a directory called /example and mounted a new drive to /vol, how I can easily move /example to /vol

Since database data is stored in /example, if I copy the folder it might just get corrupted.

Thanks

Answer 1

mv /example /vol

(Works in Linux, BSDs, most Unix flavors, and Windows PowerShell)

Answer 2

1. Shut down database (or any other service depending on /example)
2. mv /example/* /vol/
3. rm -rf /example
4. Either reconfigure your database/applications to use /vol, or create a symlink with ln -s /vol /example

Answer 3

Moving the data directory should be ok as long as the database is shut down before the move occurs.

Move all files in /example into /vol:

mv /example/* /vol

Files will be directly under /vol.

Move /example directory inside /vol:

mv /example/ /vol

Files will be under /vol/example.