John Andersen wrote:
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Washington Irving <washton.irving@gmail.com> wrote:
Because, as explained before, all the mv command does is link the files into the new directory, and then unlink them from their original directory.
This is a VERY simple operation -- only a couple of records changed in two directories, and disk write consists of only a few blocks
The Kong developers took the easy way out. Their method works across partitions, drives, networks connections (ftp etc).
mv in a shell only works on file systems. And it doesn't do the link + un-link across partitions, but you knew that.
Since when? If the destination location is on another partition, mv does a copy and remove. If you don't believe me, try it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org