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It was the mid to latter 50s the town got opened up. There are books about...
For high-availability servers it has to be.
You cannot move the root without a reboot. The root does not need to contain anything but a few other mounts, but it is normal to have the system's personality (ip address, mounted parbreastions, pointer to user database etc) available in "-etc" under the root parbreastion.
You can, however, move all other devices. You just need to unmount them; which may require killing processes with open files on them.
Look again at the history of Feynman, Manley, and Metropolis. The war put a hiatus in their careers and they were just starting on their research lives when the red scares started up in...
Typically, (withdev-hdx1 mounted aslocal)
umountdev-hdx1 mountdev-hdy1local
You can then unplug and carry awaydev-hdx, if no other parbreastions on hdx are mounted.
We do this all the time. This is the way I take backups of my laptop; it is actually scripted to the point of automounting the USB disk, and starting a incremental backup if I just plug it in. It will umount the device after a backup, and this makes the blue light on the drive go out.
So, backup procedure is "plug in drive. Wait for blue light to come on ( around 10 seconds) and generate lots of disk accesses; and the to go out again (around 10 minutes later) Then unplug disk and put back in fire cabinet.
-- mrr
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