Making a directory into a qtree or a qtree into a directory
Making a rooted directory into a qtree
A rooted directory is a directory at the root of a volume. If you have a rooted directory that you want to make into a qtree, you must do it through your client application, Windows or UNIX. Whichever client application you use, you perform this task by following a four-step process:
Following are procedures showing how to complete this process on Windows clients and on UNIX clients.
Note
These procedures are not supported in the Windows command-line interface or DOS prompt.
Making a rooted directory into a qtree through a Windows client
To make a rooted directory into a qtree by using a Windows client, complete the following steps.
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Open Windows Explorer.
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Click on the folder representation of the directory you want to change.
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From the File menu, select Rename to give this directory a different name.
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On the filer, use the qtree create command to create a new qtree with the original name.
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In Windows Explorer, open the renamed folder and select the files inside it.
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Drag these files into the folder representation of the new qtree.
Note
The more subfolders contained in a folder that you are moving across qtrees, the longer the move operation for that folder will take. |
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From the File menu, select Delete to delete the renamed, now-empty directory folder.
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Making a rooted directory into a qtree through a UNIX client
To make a rooted directory into a qtree through a UNIX client, complete the following steps.
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Open a UNIX window.
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Use the mv command to rename the directory.
Example
client: mv /n/joel/vol1/dir1 /n/joel/vol1/olddir
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From the filer, use the qtree create command to create a qtree with the original name.
Example
filer: qtree create /n/joel/vol1/dir1
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From the client, use the mv command to move the contents of the old directory into the qtree.
Example
client: mv /n/joel/vol1/olddir/* /n/joel/vol1/dir1
Note
The more subdirectories contained in a directory that you are moving across qtrees, the longer move operation for that directory will take. |
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Use the rm command to delete the old, now-empty directory.
Example
client: rm -rf /n/joel/vol1/olddir
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