[GRASSLIST:3438] Re: Moving mapsets

[Eric G. Miller]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 05:41:13PM +1100, Gordon Keith wrote:
> Now I've become a bit more familiar with GRASS I've found I haven't set 
> up my locations and mapsets in an optimal manner.
> 
> What I'd like to do is move my various mapsets to all under the one 
> location. 
> 
> Can I just move the directories using the unix mv command, or is there 
> more to it than that?
> 
> All mapsets are in the same projection (lat lon), but cover different 
> regions. ie the PERMANENT/PROJ_INFO and PERMANENT/PROJ_UNITS are the 
> same but PERMANENT/WIND isn't. As each mapset has its own WIND my guess 
> is it's OK.
> 
> On a related topic can I just rename the location and mapset 
> directories to achieve a rename, or is that information hidden 
> somewhere internally?

"mv" should work.  The biggy is that the projections are all the same,
since several data formats don't keep track, but rely on the location
info.  I'd keep a backup temporarily.  There may be an issue with
registration points, if you have any, but I'm not certain about that.

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>