Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:23:06 +0200 From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't figure out an one-liner Message-ID: <41E621DA.4080102@raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <20050112210359.GN3639@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> References: <41E58A4E.9000105@raad.tartu.ee> <20050112210359.GN3639@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub>
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Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:36:30PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: >=20 >>I have a directory structure like this >> >>/home >> /joe >> /peter >> /bill >> ... etc >> >>I'm trying to move some (but not all) subdirectories of /home to=20 >>/newhome, using tar.=20 > Are /home and /newhome on different filesystems? What wrong with a > simple mv? =20 Yes, /home and /newhome are on different filesystems. I was afraid that=20 by using mv I'd lose some permissions, but now, after reading man mv, it = seems I shouldn't be. Thanks for the tip. --=20 Toomas Aas -------------------------------------------------------- |arvutiv=F5rgu peaspetsialist | head specialist on computer networks| |Tartu Linnakantselei | Tartu City Office | ----------------------------------------------------- +372 736 1274
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