Re: Does mv Preserve Hard Links?

2005-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mv /mnt/fs1/dir /mnt/fs2/dir where /mnt/fs[12] are two different ext3 filesystems, /mnt/fs2/dir doesn't exist, and /mnt/fs1/dir contains many thousands of files, several thousand of which are reference by 3 to 6 directory entries compared to the normal 1. [...]

Re: Does mv Preserve Hard Links?

2005-06-22 Thread Jim Meyering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does `mv (coreutils) 5.2.1' preserve hard links? In particular Yes. If you can make it fail to preserve links, please report it with as much detail as possible. Also, you might want to try the latest test release:

mv and hard links

2005-03-10 Thread Eric Blake
This may be worthy of raising an issue with the austin group, but I thought I'd ask here first. A complaint was raised on the cygwin list that the following sequence had no interactive prompt: $ uname CYGWIN_NT-5.0 $ touch a $ ln a b $ mv -i a b $ echo $? 0 $ mv --version | head -n 1 mv (GNU

Re: mv and hard links

2005-03-10 Thread Jim Meyering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) wrote: This may be worthy of raising an issue with the austin group, but I thought I'd ask here first. A complaint was raised on the cygwin list that the following sequence had no interactive prompt: $ uname CYGWIN_NT-5.0 $ touch a $ ln a b $ mv -i a b $