On Monday 02 July 2001 14:53, Kingsly John wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The previous thread about moving to reiserfs threw up quite a few cryptic
> commands to move the root file system...
>
> wouldn't a simple mv have been sufficient ? (after booting from a tiny
> linux distro and mounting both the ext2 and reiserfs partitions)
Well, across filesystems, a mv doesn't work the same. A copy is made and then
the source is removed. That also depends on the version of mv you're using.
Older 'mv's didn't let you move across filesystems. Then again we need a
mini-distribution that supports reiserfs and a new version of mv. I don't
know if file permissions and ownership is maintained by mv.
That was it in a nutshell :)
-Faisal.
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