I have GNU fileutils 4.0p installed on Red Hat Linux 6.2.
I have some files about 420 Mbytes in size, and I tried to move them from one
directory to another on the same device.
The command I used was
mv uml/* fs/
What I expected to happen is logically equivalent to
ln uml/FILE fs/FILE
rm uml/FILE
for each file.
What mv actually attempted was to copy the files with the result it took ages
and then ran out of space.
I eventually got round the problem by shuffling directory names and that
worked well.
I'm baffled as to why it attempted what it did, but there is no room for
doubt: I ran out of disk space.
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