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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.mtu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!purdue!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Moving directories across filesystems Date: 8 Jun 1995 17:28:49 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3r7c0h$qn1@news.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I tried to : mv /root /usr/home/root And it failed (/usr was mounted on another partition). Is this a correct behavior now? Files are moved just fine -- that's what I did finally: mkdir /usr/home/root mv /root/* /usr/home/root Thank you. Please do not beat me if this is mentioned in new man pages -- I just did not get to them yet (see 'No disks found'-thread if want to know why) )-: -mi -- The following two lines are NOT related to each other! (-: "When in doubt, let your horse do the thinking." "Computer hackers do it all night long..."