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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Moving directories across filesystems
Date: 14 Jun 1995 10:07:52 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Peter Merz <peter@netz.hrz.uni-siegen.de> 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 the right behaviour. You cannot move dircetories across filesystems.
It used to work in 1.1.5.1 though. `mv' was smart enough to handle
this:
j@bonnie 114% pwd
/a/users/j/menu
j@bonnie 115% /sbin/mount
...
/dev/sd0g on /tmp (local, NFS exported)
/dev/sd1e on /b (local, NFS exported)
/dev/sd2e on /a (local, NFS exported)
j@bonnie 116% mkdir foo
j@bonnie 117% touch foo/bar
j@bonnie 118% touch foo/mumble
j@bonnie 119% mv foo /tmp
j@bonnie 120% ls /tmp/foo
/tmp/foo:
bar mumble
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
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