[ale] move?

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

Geoffrey writes:
 > I'm afraid I disagree.  I mv files from one disc to another all the time 
 > with mv.  Just did it.  mv foo from /home (/dev/hda1) to /top (/dev/hdb1).
 > 
 > Might you be getting hard links mixed up with moving a file?

Isn't that a unix/gnu thing?  I seem to recall that the mv in Solaris
couldn't do this.  I think this capability is peculiar to GNU
fileutils.

--Michael

 > 
 > Ken Nagorski wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi there, 
 > > 
 > > yes there is a mv command however, you cannot move stuff across different
 > > disks. lets say you have a mail spool and it got really big... You added a
 > > new drive and you you mounted it on /mnt so you could move the contents of
 > > /var to it cause you where going to reboot and mount this second drive as
 > > /var instead of it being off the / partition. OK. This said, mv will fail
 > > cause you can't mv across file systems. If this is the case tar will help
 > > 
 > > cd /var
 > > tar cvfp - .|(cd /mnt; tar xvf -)
 > > 
 > > Now you have copied the contents of /var across a file system.
 > > 
 > > Thanks
 > > Ken
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > >>theres a copy command (cp) i know but is there a move
 > >>command? its just a combination of cp and rm but ...
 > >>is it there? or should i right a tiny bash script?
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