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From: peter@netz.hrz.uni-siegen.de (Peter Merz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Moving directories across filesystems
Date: 12 Jun 1995 18:03:39 GMT
Organization: Computer Center, University of Siegen, Germany
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Mikhail Teterin (mi@cs.bu.edu) wrote:
: I tried to :
: 	mv /root /usr/home/root
: And it failed (/usr was mounted on another partition). Is this a correct 
: behavior now? Files are moved just fine 

That's the right behaviour. You cannot move dircetories across filesystems.

Peter.

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