Problem
You have a directory that deserves it’s own file system for some reason. This could be because you need to increase throughput, manage backups separately, manage quotas separately or just to have a cleaner data architecture.
Solution
- Create a new filesystem using
- Mount the new filesystem temporarily to
- Stop all processes that access the directory to move
- Move all contents to the new filesystem using
This principle is pretty much the same of any Unix operating system.