From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 07:23:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE8816A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:23:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADFD043D39 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:23:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id j0D7NHrx024643; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:23:19 +0200 Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 13 Jan 05 09:23:20 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 13 Jan 05 09:23:07 +0300 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (192.168.1.2) by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48) with ESMTP; 13 Jan 05 09:23:06 +0300 Message-ID: <41E621DA.4080102@raad.tartu.ee> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:23:06 +0200 From: Toomas Aas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (Windows/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Kinkade References: <41E58A4E.9000105@raad.tartu.ee> <20050112210359.GN3639@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <20050112210359.GN3639@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't figure out an one-liner X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:23:22 -0000 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