Re: Problem with CDROM copying or VFAT.

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 10:32:14 -0300


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.

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electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university

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