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From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Moving directories across filesystems
Date: 13 Jun 1995 20:22:47 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Sitting, working. Suddenly realized that Peter Merz wrote:
: That's the right behaviour. You cannot move dircetories across filesystems.

Strange:
	1. Why was it working under FreeBSD 2.0?
	2. Why does such a limitation exist?
	
	-mi
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