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From: rashid@haven.ios.com (Rashid Karimov.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Moving directories across filesystems
Date: 8 Jun 1995 19:40:41 GMT
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Mikhail Teterin (mi@cs.bu.edu) wrote:
: 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
I usually use cpio and find for doing this.
For example , to move everything in /usr/local/HAHA
to /var/dsk1/HAHA you should go to /usr/local and type
there:
find HAHA -print -depth | cpio -pdv /var/dsk1
the permossions will be preserved, but you have to remove
the original HAHA by hand later
Rashid
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