Re: [vox-tech] Copying/ Moving Large number of files

2008-12-12 Thread Troy Arnold
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:07:13PM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote: Troy Arnold wrote: mv would be fine because the file isn't unlinked from the source until it has successfully been written to the destination. I strongly disagree, having had problems with mv and large numbers of files. It

[vox-tech] Copying/ Moving Large number of files

2008-12-11 Thread ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon)
Hi, I need to move a large number of directories whose size ranges from 1GB to 6 GB (multiple files ~400mb each) between two NFS partitions. Which is the safest way to do it? Will mv dir1 /bla/bla/bla/dir1 will suffice? The data is extremely valuable and I will hate to lose it during the

Re: [vox-tech] Copying/ Moving Large number of files

2008-12-11 Thread Troy Arnold
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:48:34PM -0500, ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) wrote: Hi, I need to move a large number of directories whose size ranges from 1GB to 6 GB (multiple files ~400mb each) between two NFS partitions. Which is the safest way to do it? Will mv dir1 /bla/bla/bla/dir1 will

Re: [vox-tech] Copying/ Moving Large number of files

2008-12-11 Thread Foo Lim
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:48 PM, ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) a...@novozymes.com wrote: Hi, I need to move a large number of directories whose size ranges from 1GB to 6 GB (multiple files ~400mb each) between two NFS partitions. Which is the safest way to do it? Will mv dir1

Re: [vox-tech] Copying/ Moving Large number of files

2008-12-11 Thread Jan W
Large number of files To: vox-tech vox-tech@lists.lugod.org Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 1:48 PM Hi, I need to move a large number of directories whose size ranges from 1GB to 6 GB (multiple files ~400mb each) between two NFS partitions. Which is the safest way to do it? Will mv dir1

Re: [vox-tech] Copying/ Moving Large number of files

2008-12-11 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Troy Arnold wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:48:34PM -0500, ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) wrote: Hi, I need to move a large number of directories whose size ranges from 1GB to 6 GB (multiple files ~400mb each) between two NFS partitions. Which is the safest way to do it? Will mv dir1