system disks

Patrick McManus mcmanus at AppliedTheory.com
Fri May 26 18:34:22 EDT 2000


In a previous episode Derek Martin said...
:: 
:: This is not true. The mv command has (or perhaps had) that limitation on
:: commercial Unix systems, but the mv command on Linux has no such
:: limitation.
:: 

but to be fair, a mv across filesystems is really implemented by cp
like semanitcs not by mv (rename (2)) semantics..

it is a heck of a lot safer than "cp -p *; rm *" though as you get per
file error checking..

-P


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