Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Problem with CDROM copying or VFAT. | Date | Sun, 11 Oct 1998 10:32:14 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.981011063913.754K-100000@red.prv>, "Mike A. Harris" w rites: +----- | On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Gordon Chaffee wrote: | >What do you mean by 'move'? A move across filesystems can't succeed. | >Were you trying to tar it up and untar it in Linux and that was failing? | | Moves across filesystems do work. Let me illustrate: | | 1 root@red:~# mv serial.html /fat32/ | serial.html -> /fat32/serial.html +--->8
mv has code to detect a cross-filesystem mv and do a copy/unlink instead.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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