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Re: cp problem on Win95, mv question




On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Mark Ruys wrote:

> 
> 1) First a simple question with b18 and Windows NT. Is it true you 
> can't `mv' files between disks. Namely,
> 
>   mv //c/work.txt //a
> 
> generates an error. I can manually cp and rm the files, but not 
> moving.

I can't help with your other problems, but under Linux, at least, mv can't
move accross volumes....even on the same disk if you are copying across
partitions.  I don't necessarily know WHY this is happening, but it is
consistent with the behavior of the GNU utilities.

mike

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