[ale] move?

[Geoffrey]

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).

Note, you've also made references to moving across files systems, which 
could be a different thing as you can have file systems that are on the 
same disk or not.

Might you be getting hard links mixed up with moving a file?

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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