From: gert@greenie.gold.sub.org (Gert Doering) Subject: Re: Bug in 'msdos' file system? Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 15:11:49 GMT
danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
>>mv /home/frampton/myfile.txt /dos/c:
>>
>Without knowing the internals too well, my sense is telling me that it's
>a BAD IDEA to move files between two file systems, especially between as
>different ones as Linux and DOS has. In cases like that the files
>probably should be copied, not moved because I imagine mv leaves the
>actual data in place and only relinks directory pointers to that data.
>So, in your case, the myfile.txt data was probably staying on your Linux
>partition while a directory pointer from Linux was attempted to be moved
>to the DOS partition. That sounds like a bad news to me!
Rubbish.
mv cannot link anything to a different filesystem, so the file is copied
and deleted.
>There is a way to do this right even in such situations by
>performing really a cp and rm operation in place of inter-filesystem mv,
>but that is probably not done in this case.
That *is* done internally by all "mv" implementations I know about.
gert
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