(was Re: cp problem on Win95, mv question)

Fri Jul 11 00:40:00 GMT 1997

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At 05:28 PM 7/10/97 -0600, Mike Porter wrote:
>>>On 1997年7月10日, Mark Ruys wrote:
>>>>> 1) First a simple question with b18 and Windows NT. Is it true you 

>> can't `mv' files between disks. Namely,
>>>> mv //c/work.txt //a
>>>> generates an error. I can manually cp and rm the files, but not 
>> moving.
>>I can't help with your other problems, but under Linux, at least, mv 
can't
>move accross volumes....even on the same disk if you are copying 
across
>partitions. I don't necessarily know WHY this is happening, but it 
is
>consistent with the behavior of the GNU utilities.

That's because a mv does some (inode) magic within the filesystem - 
nothing actually gets moved, except some pointers in the "FAT". This 
kind of operation doesn't make sense across file-systems.
Of course, you've got to wonder why the "mv" command just doesn't do 
a cp/rm when moving across filesystems. But, it's UNIX, I suppose, 
that's answer enough. ;-)
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