Re: moving /var

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

celejar <celejar@gmail.com>:
>  On 12/21/06, s. keeling <keeling@spots.ab.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Note mv doesn't work between filesystems.  cp -a or tar/untar (or any
> > other archiver) is the right way.
> 
>  Are you sure this is true? I think I use mv to do that all the time.

I stand corrected.  It was that way prior to v. 4.0 of coreutils.  See
"info coreutils mv"


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