cp problem on Win95, mv question

[Uli Luckas]

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Linux mv can move files accross filesystems! It jost can't move whole directory trees accross filesystem which is quite a differnce.

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> 
> On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, 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.
> 
> mike
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